Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Soaking and Drying Effect on the Functional Properties of Ogi Produce from Some Selected Maize Varieties

This study evaluated the effect of soaking period (12, 24 and 36 hours) and drying temperature (40,50 and 60°C) on the functional properties of Ogi powder produced from four different maize varieties; A5W, A4Y, D1Y and S7Y. The moisture content and drying rate decreased significantly (p 0.05) in Bulk Density, Sedimentation and Swelling Power. The result revealed that sedimentation volumes were not influenced by processing methods while starch damage of the Ogi powders varies from 92.03 to 95.02%. This increased with increase in drying temperature. Ogi powders had least gelation of 8% for all the maize varieties. There were significant differences (p<0.05) in Viscosity, Solubility, Water Absorption Capacities (WAC) and Oil Absorption Capacities (OAC). Ogi powder produced from A4Y variety and soaked for 12 hours exhibited higher WAC values at 50°C. This variety also displayed higher values of water absorption capacity at all temperatures. Solubility, viscosity and swelling power increased with increase in temperature. The viscosity of the Ogi powders pastes ranged from 1200-1794 cps, and 804- 1540 at 80 and 30°C, respectively. Ogi powders produced from D1Y and S7Y exhibited higher degree of retrogradation. Differences observed in the functional properties among varieties highlight the possible application of end-product suitability in Ogi powder processing.
Forage productivity and morphogenesis of Axonopus aureus under different nitrogen fertilization rates

) on forage yield and morphogenesis of Axonopus aureus was evaluated in the savannas of Roraima State, Brazil. The experimental design was in randomized blocks with three replicates. The grass showed high responsiveness to N fertilization. Dry weight (DW) yield, morphogenetic and structural traits and forage quality were positively affected by N fertilization. The effects of N fertilization on DW yield, N content, leaf appearance rate, leaf elongation rate, number of live leaves/tiller, final leaf length and leaf area index were quadratic and maximum values were estimated with application of 168.8 (2,181 kg ha -1 ); 124.8 (21.1 g/kg); 158.5 (0.163 leaf/day per tiller); 172.3 (2.75 cm/tiller per day); 155.5 (17.23 cm); 185.5 (7.55 leaves/tiller) and 185.3 (2.22) kg N ha -1 , respectively. Tiller population density and leaf senescence rate are directly proportional to increase in N rates, and the opposite occurs for N utilization efficiency and apparent N recovery.
Biomimetic chemistry on the protection of cis phospholipid from the thiyl radical isomerization by common antioxidants

In this paper the evaluation of cis phospholipids geometry protection from the thiyl r adical isomerization in the presence of common antioxidants is studied. Thus, large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs) of glycerophospholipids containing oleate moieties were used as biomimetic model to demonstrate that hydrophilic ascorbic acid and urat e, and hydrophobic all-trans retinol acetate and α-tocopherol, are able to inhibit cis -trans isomerization from the thiyl radicals that are known to react as efficient isomerizing species. Th e synergistic effect obtained by a mix of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic antioxidants at in vivo concentrations is also proved to exert an extraordinary protection for the integrity of cis lipid geometry.
Performance Pay, Sorting, and Outsourcing

Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms, those with a measurement cost advantage choose to implement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the level and variability of compensation are higher at these firms than at salary firms. Workers may select firms with different compensation methods at different stages of their work life. Productive workers start at performance pay firms and switch to salary firms once their productivity is revealed. The magnitude of the resulting worker flows depends on the payoff from effort and is therefore related to the age profile of the wage differential between performance pay and salary firms. Advantages in measuring worker productivity constitute a plausible explanation for the emergence of specialized business related service (BRS) firms. Accordingly, BRS firms should make a much wider use of performance pay and employ better workers than diversified corporations. Data from the 1998 Swiss Wage Structure Survey confirm the model's predictions both for the economy at large and for BRS firms.
Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda

The impacts of the global economic crisis of 2008, the intractable problems of persistent poverty and environmental change have focused attention on organizations that combine enterprise with an embedded social purpose. Scholarly interest in social enterprise (SE) has progressed beyond the early focus on definitions and context to investigate their management and performance. From a review of the SE literature, the authors identify hybridity, the pursuit of the dual mission of financial sustainability and social purpose, as the defining characteristic of SEs. They assess the impact of hybridity on the management of the SE mission, financial resource acquisition and human resource mobilization, and present a framework for understanding the tensions and trade‐offs resulting from hybridity. By examining the influence of dual mission and conflicting institutional logics on SE management the authors suggest future research directions for theory development for SE and hybrid organizations more generally.
What do we Know About Writers and Mental Illness Comparing Writers to Non-Writers

This paper examines the literature on creative writing and mental illness and relates it to the “writing cure” research that shows that expressive writing improves health. There is an abundance of evidence that professional poets have poorer health outcomes relative to both other writers and to the population at large. Why doesn’t the writing cure help them? The formation of a narrative, an element often missing in poetry, may provide the answer. Other possible explanations are that poets may be more depressed to begin with and may be even worse off if they did not write. For female poets, they may be subject to stereotypic expectations about writing themes, which may put them at further risk. Those seeking improvements in health through writing are advised to adopt a narrative style.
Short-term effects of grassland renovation on CO 2 exchange of grasslands in a temperate humid region

To investigate the short-term effects of grassland renovation on carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange of intensively managed grasslands in Japan, we conducted CO2 flux measurements during the renovation process by using the eddy covariance and closed chamber methods in 2007, 2012, and 2013. The flux measurements were conducted at three grassland fi elds: two fi elds used for cutting, one receiving only chemical fertilizer (CF) and the other receiving composted cattle manure (CM) annually, and one fi eld used for grazing (GM). Chamber measurements revealed fl ushes of CO2 after plowing (14.45-23.94 μmol m s) and subsequent disk harrowing (7.36 μmol m s, in CF) followed by rapid drops of CO2 flux, which were local and temporary phenomena. The mean CO2 losses during renovation periods were calculated as 4.52-4.74, 6.00-6.81, and 4.57 g C m d in CF, CM, and GM, respectively; CF and CM calculation is based on eddy covariance measurements, including temporal fl ux variations and representing footprint areas. The amount of carbon input during renovation including non-harvested grass biomass (stubble and roots) and applied manure was estimated as 2.24-3.50 and 6.17-8.77 Mg C ha in CF and CM, respectively. Among them, carbon derived from plowed roots and manure is presumably resistant in soil, contributing to long-term soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation. Our results also indicate that grassland renovation work does not affect short-term net CO2 loss signifi cantly, although it affects CO2 emissions to a certain extent. We can therefore say that net CO2 loss during renovation is mainly brought by the absence of vegetation in this site. Grasses contribute SOC accumulation through biomass allocation belowground; and it is thus recommended to shorten grassland renovation period, the duration without photosynthesis, to reduce CO2 loss associated with grassland renovation.
Falling Down: The Influence Of Traffic Patterns And Availability Of Emergency Medical Service Personnel On The Lethality Of Violent Encounters

This study investigates the impact of traffic patterns and the availability of emergency medical services on the lethality of violent interpersonal encounters. Key situational and contextual factors are controlled using the criminal events perspective. Data were taken from the 2002 National Incident-Based Reporting System of the FBI, as well as from fire/rescue and EMS services of Memphis, TN, Cincinnati, OH, and Richmond, VA. Additive models of logistic regression analysis revealed that fire/rescue availability, firearm use, incidents arising out of arguments, outdoor locations, and victim gender are the most consistent predictors of whether or not a violent incident will result in a homicide.
International Programs 7-22-2005 HRM and Performance : What ’ s Next ?

The last decade of empirical research on the added value of human resource management (HRM), also known as the HRM and Performance debate, demonstrates evidence that ‘HRM does matter’ (Huselid, 1995; Guest, Michie, Conway and Sheehan, 2003; Wright, Gardner and Moynihan, 2003). Unfortunately, the relationships are often (statistically) weak and the results ambiguous. This paper reviews and attempts to extend the theoretical and methodological issues in the HRM and performance debate. Our aim is to build an agenda for future research in this area. After a brief overview of achievements to date, we proceed with the theoretical and methodological issues related to what constitutes HRM, what is meant by the concept of performance and what is the nature of the link between these two. In the final section, we make a plea for research designs starting from a multidimensional concept of performance, including the perceptions of employees, and building on the premise of HRM systems as an enabling device for a whole range of strategic options. This implies a reversal of the Strategy-HRM linkage.
Tidal Dissipation and Eccentricity Pumping: Implications for the Depth of the Secondary Eclipse of 55 Cnc e

Abstract We use the super-Earth 55 Cnc e (Fischer et al. 2008) as a case-study to address an observable effect of tidal heating. This transiting short-period planet belongs to a compact multiple system with massive planets. We investigate whether planet-planet interactions can force the eccentricity of this planet to a level that would affect the eclipse depth observed with Spitzer.
Assessing the Impact of Stakeholder Engagement in Management Strategy Evaluation

After completing a large, regional, multi-use Management Strategy Evaluation, we attempt to assess the impact of stakeholder engagement on the project. We do so by comparing the original project plan to the actual project development and highlight the changes which can be more directly related to stakeholder engagement aided by the application of a logic model for program evaluation. The impact can be summarised into four broad classes: a) change in the actual project development; b) a measurable change in the network of interactions both stakeholders (which includes researchers); c) changes in how the computer model was developed and run; and d) changes in attitudes among stakeholders (including researchers). We discuss these changes, the way they have been detected and some lessons we learnt which may benefit future Management Strategy Evaluation projects.
QUALITY EVALUATION OF ONION BISCUITS WITH AROMATIZED FISHMEAL FROM THE CARCASSES OF THE NILE TILAPIA

Current assay aims at the preparation of onion biscuits with the inclusion of different levels of aromatized fishmeal from the carcasses of the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) to assess their chemical composition and analyze their sensorial and microbiological features. Carcasses (spine with ribs and adhering meat after filleting) were washed and immersed in brine 20% (2:1 – brine volume /weight) with a mixture of 50 g of dehydrated rosemary, marjoram, sage, oregano, chives and parsley. The carcasses were drained, smoked, pressed, ground, dehydrated and ground for the second time. The onion biscuits included 0%, 10%, 20% and 30% fishmeal. There was a positive linear effect for protein, ashes and minerals, but no significant difference for humidity and lipids. A negative linear effect occurred with carbohydrates, with a decrease from 53.75% to 40.56%, similar to calorie rates (from 386.30 to 356.05 kcal/100 g). There was no significant difference for sensorial attributes and purchase intention. Scores ranged between 5.08 and 7.14 for aroma, taste, texture and color (scale 1-9) and between 2.70 and 3.28 for buying intention (scale 1-5). Results show that the product lay within microbiological standards required by Brazilian sanitary law. It is concluded that owing to the sensorial analysis, up to 30% of aromatized fishmeal may be included, with an increase in the rates of protein and minerals coupled to the reduction of carbohydrate and calorie rates.
Monetarizing the social value: theory and evidence

Over the last decade important efforts were made to integrate economic and social value in organizations within a unic report. This is significant because it reflects greater interest and demands in society concerning not just economic but social responsibilities of organizations.However, social organizations are finding problems to give value to their social contribution, mainly due to the prominence of financial economic indicators; which curiously only have instrumental value in this type of entities.The aim of this paper is to develop a social accounting model that allows incorporating the social value, in its monetized form, employing accounting standards; with the economic one. It is not possible to monetize full social value with this model, although it does show economic value with social impact, socio-economic return and specific social value.Application of this model makes possible the quantitative and monetized comparison of integrated value between companies, which would involve more efficient decision-making based on symmetry and more complete information (private organizations), more efficiency in consumption or investment decisions (private individuals) and efficient indicators for establishing public policies (public administration). Overall, it could prove to be a basic and valuable component of business reputation.
Middle Jurassic - Early Cretaceous rifting of the Danish Central Graben

During the Jurassic ‐ Early Cretaceous, the Danish Central Graben developed as a N‐S- to NNW‐ SSE-trending graben bounded by the Ringkobing‐Fyn High towards the east and the Mid North Sea High towards the west. The graben consists of a system of half-grabens and evolved by faultcontrolled subsidence; three main rift pulses have been recognised. The first pulse ranged from the Callovian to the Early Oxfordian, the second pulse was initiated in the latest Late Kimmeridgian and lasted for most of the Early Volgian, and the third and final pulse occurred within the Ryazanian in the Early Cretaceous. The first pulse was characterised by subsidence along N‐S-trending faults. The most pronounced fault-controlled subsidence occurred in the east, especially along N‐S-striking segments of the boundary fault to the Ringkobing‐Fyn High. During this period, minor salt movements occurred with the development of salt pillows. The activity along the N‐S-trending faults ceased during the Oxfordian. During the second pulse, in Early Volgian times, subsidence was concentrated along new NNW‐SSE-trending faults and the main depocentre shifted westward, being most marked within the Tail End Graben, the Arne‐Elin Graben, and the Feda Graben. This tectonic event was accompanied by the accumulation of a relatively thick sediment load resulting in the development of salt diapirs, especially within the Salt Dome Province. The third tectonic pulse was essentially a reactivation of the NNW‐SSE-trending structures and there is clear evidence of subsidence controlled by faulting and salt movements. Despite the overall extensional tectonic regime, local compressional tectonics resulted in thrusting. For instance, the Gert Ridge is interpreted to have formed by readjustment at the boundary fault between two subsiding blocks. The structural framework during graben evolution controlled, to some degree, the distribution of reservoir sandstones. Reservoir sandstones associated with periods of rotational tilt include Middle Jurassic deposits referred to the Bryne and Lulu Formations, and Upper Jurassic sandstones referred informally to the ‘Fife Sandstone Formation’. Sands deposited during tectonic relaxation are represented by the Heno Formation and Upper Jurassic turbidites interbedded in the Farsund Formation. Sea-level changes were probably most important during periods of tectonic relaxation, particularly with respect to the deposition of lowstand sandstones in basinal areas.
Study on the relationship of demographic characteristics of rs1053004 in STAT3 Gene in pationts with HCC following chronic HBV infection

Background and Aims: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most important common cancers in the world. The main etiology of this cancer in developing and third world countries is due to the infection with hepatitis B and C viruses. Hepatitis B and C viruses (HCV) would both cause liver cancer but the incidence of the disease in relation to the age and gender has not been determined. The present study was conducted to evaluate the relation between some demographic characteristics with rs1053004 polymorphism in STAT3 gene among patients with liver cancer following chronic hepatitis B infection and its comparison with healthy subjects. Materials and Methods: In this study, 33 tissue samples of liver cancer from pationts with HBV infection, 50 blood samples from patients with chronic hepatitis B and 50 blood samples from healthy subjects, as the control group, were obtained to determine rs1053004 polymorphism in STAT3 gene (signal transducer factor and activator of transcription in the nucleus) using Real Time PCR method. Results: In the present study 133 subjects were evaluated and from them, 50 (37.6%) were healthy and 50 of the participants (37.6%) had chronic hepatitis B and 33 (24.8%) had HCC. 69.9% of the participants (93 participants) were male and 30.1% (40 participants) were female. According to the results, the gender of the participants in the studied groups had no significant relation with their SNPrs1053004 polymorphism. But the relation between gender and liver cancer was statistically significant (p < 0001); indicating that the prevalence of liver cancer was higher among men than women. The average age of the healthy group was 35.86 years, of the chronic hepatitis B group was 40.4 years and of the HCC group was 53.78 years. Based on the results, the difference in age groups of chronic hepatitis B group and HCC pationts was statistically significant as compared with the control group (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Results of the present study showed no significant relation between the presence of rs1053004 polymorphism in STAT3 gene (signal transducer factor and activator of transcription in the nucleus) and gender of the participants but the difference between the ages of the healthy group, chronic hepatitis B group and HCC group was statistically significant. In other words, age could be a predicting factor in developing HCC.
Pseudo-symmetries of Anosov maps and spectral statistics

The statistics of the quantum eigenvalues of certain families of nonlinear maps on the 2-torus are found not to belong to the universality classes one would expect from the symmetries of the (classical) dynamics the maps generate. These anomalies are shown to be caused by arithmetical quantum symmetries which do not have a classical limit. They are related to the dynamics generated by associated linear torus maps on particular rational lattices that form the support of the quantum Wigner functions.
A seminorm with square property on a Banach algebra is submultiplicative

The result stated in the title is proved in a Banach algebra and is used to discuss (i) commutativity criteria in normed algebras, (ii) uniqueness of the uniform norm in uniform Banach algebras, and (iii) existence of continuous multiplicative linear functionals on topological algebras together with a simple reduction of the Michael problem in Frechet algebras. Submultiplicativity does not imply subadditivity in the presence of the square property.
Interpretation of Aeromagnetic Anomalies over parts of Upper BenueTrough and Southern Chad Basin, Nigeria

A detailed interpretation of the aeromagnetic data has been carried out over parts of Upper Benue Trough and Southern Chad Basin, Nigeria. The magnetic properties of rock were used to determine the depth to magnetic basement, model prominent magnetic anomaly, determine the basement topography and also determine various temperatures at depth in the study area. Two depth source models were interpreted using Discrete Fourier Transform method. Depth to the deeper magnetic sources ranges from 1.5 to 2.5 km, representing the sedimentary cover in the study area. The depth to the shallower magnetic source model which ranges from 0.5-1.4 km, represents intrusive bodies within the area. Based on the sedimentary thickness of 1.5 - 2.5 km and the temperature at depth of 81-1150C, the possibility of hydrocarbon generation towards the northeastern part of the study area is feasible.