Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EFFECT OF SOME COMMERCIAL BIO-AGENTS ON YIELD AND DAMPING-OFF DISEASE OF WHEAT LINES (Triticum aestivum vulgair L.)

The current study was conducted to assess the possibility of using two bioagents (BAs), Trichoderma harzianum T39 (Trichodex) and Bacillus subtilis (MBI 600) tested at 1, 3 and 5% concentration to control damping-off disease and also their ability to promote yield of wheat lines under field conditions. Seed inoculation with two BAs protected wheat seedlings and highly promoted seed germination. Also, inoculation with BAs significantly affected number of spikes/plant, biological yield/plant and grain yield/plant and there were statistically significant differences between bread wheat lines under field conditions. Moreover, the treatments at 5% of T. harzianum and B. subtilis were the best treatments to increase grain yield. Four lines, L11, L12, L27 and L38 were found to be more responsive to BAs treatments under field conditions.
“Standard” Versus “Challenging” Patients - Perioperative Outcomes using Computer-Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty

This study investigated if CAOS TKA cases in higher risk patients would impact the perioperative outcomes of surgery. Intraoperative and recovery/discharge data on 70 patients (72 knees) from a multicenter, consecutive series were analyzed. The patients were grouped into challenging and standard case groups according to the criteria of age, BMI, and degree of deformity. Despite a general trend observed between the challenging and standard cases, the two groups did not exhibit significant differences in terms of surgical time, blood loss, recovery and time to discharge. The data demonstrated consistent perioperative results by CAOS TKA irrespective of patient conditions.
Speech Understanding in Noise as a Function of Microphone Placement in Hearing Aids

An abstract of the thesis for Erin Marlene Flowers Hand for the Master of Science in Speech Communication: Speech and Hearing Science presented July 10, 1996. Title: Speech Understanding in Noise as a Function of Microphone Placement in Hearing Aids. Hearing aid users often complain of poor speech understanding in the presence of background noise. There have been many attempts to overcome this problem by hearing aid manufactures and dispensers. The purpose of the present study was to determine if differences existed between three different styles of hearing aids (i.e. in the ear (ITE), in the canal (ITC), and completely in the canal (CIC)) in the presence of a multi-talker babble. Five sensori-neural hearing impaired subjects were selected from the Portland State University audiology clinic. The subjects were required to listen to a recording of the California Consonant Test (CCT) against a background noise of multi-talker babble. Stimuli were presented through headphones in the sound booth. The stimuli were recorded through three different hearing aids placed on KEMAR's left ear and adjusted to a 10 dB signal-to-noise ratio. Once the speech samples were recorded and digitized, they were routed through a GSl-16 audiometer to the listener. In order to determine performance differences across the three hearing aid configurations from within a single-subject design, each subject's performance was compared in a pairwise fashion between the hearing aid configurations. An analysis of the data was completed using the Randomization test. Using this statistical model, no significant difference was found between the individual scores. Further research is warranted to determine if a better measure exists that qualitatively defines the effect of microphone placement on speech understanding ability in hearing aid users.
Review of nurses and midwives in the prescribing and administration of medicinal products: progress report: December 2004.

The Review of Nurses and Midwives in the Precribing and Administration of Medicinal Projects which be completed in Spring 2005 is a comprehensive review of medication management by nurses and midwives. It is a joint project of An Bord Altranais and National Council for the Professional Development Midwifery. This is a summary of progress to date and an outline of proposed concluding activities. The Steering Committee for the Review represents members of Ihe nursing. midwifery, medicine, pharmacy and education professions, health board management, as weII as representatives from public and patient organisations, with the President of An Bord Altranais as Chairperson. The Committee has met on a quarterly basis from December 2001 to the present. A project team was appointed to coordinate the project.
The People Make the Place Complicated

When Ben Schneider gave his presidential address to the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology two decades ago, he argued that "the attributes of people . are the fundamental determinants of organizational behavior" (1987, P: 437). Using the dynamic cycle of like people being attracted to organizations, selection into organizations of similar others, and attrition of misfits from organizations (the ASA model), Schneider explained how organizations evolve toward psychological homogeneity. In his presidential address and elsewhere, Schneider has ! consistently emphasized the importance of people's psychological attri­ i butes (e.g., personality, interests) as the primary characteristics driving ASA dynamics. That is, his work assumes that people primarily attend to and are attracted or repelled by the psychological attributes of others.
Fluctuations in Economic Uncertainty and Transmission of Monetary Policy Shocks: Evidence Using Daily Surveys from Brazil

We use a unique Brazilian dataset on daily survey expectations to obtain direct measures of shocks to central bank target rates and changes in economic uncertainty. Using these measures, we gauge the effect of monetary policy shocks on economic uncertainty, term premia, inflation expectations, and bond yields in Brazil. We find strong evidence that inflation uncertainty is key to transmitting monetary policy shocks to the yield curve via time-varying term premia. Finally, Fed announcements have sizeable spillover effects on the Brazilian bond market, as positive shocks to US yields significantly raise term premia in Brazil through elevated exchange rate risk.
How we Deal with Small Data?

Most commonly used statistical methods in analyzing and interpreting clinical trial data are based on a specific distribution of the data, such as normal, binomial and exponential models. The alternative is to choose nonparametric methods based on rank, but with the disadvantage that for small size samples, they may give erroneous results. In this article, we refer an accurate statistical method based on computational simulations in order to characterize and compare as efficiently as possible clinical trial studies having few values. The bootstrap technique is a statistical method that does not depend on any data distribution hypothesis and can be considered adequate to estimate some essential parameters in data analysis by different types of bootstrap confidence intervals. The effect-size statistics and its confidence intervals are also presented, being useful when we compare group means.
A Comparison of the Isothermal Fatigue Behavior of Sn-Ag-Cu to Sn-Pb Solder

The movement to Pb-free soldering will result in solder joints that are significantly stiffer than those made of SnPb. This paper presents the results from the first phase of a two-part study to understand and compare the isothermal mechanical fatigue behavior of tin-silver-copper (SnAgCu) solder to that of tin-lead (SnPb) solder. A combination of experiments and finite element analysis was used to compare and predict the durability of SnPb and SnAgCu surface mount solder joints. The experiments were composed of cyclic four-point bend tests of printed wiring board coupons populated with 2512 sized resistors at 5 and 10 Hz. This configuration was chosen so the test would reflect actual electronic products and still be rapidly modeled using finite element analysis (FEA). This frequency should be sufficiently high to minimize solder creep during the testing. The board level strains were verified with strain gauges and the solder joint failures were detected using a high-speed event detector. Tests were conducted at two board level strain values and then modeled in FEA to determine the strains and stresses developed in the solder joint. This information was then used to determine the appropriate cyclic fatigue relationship for both SnAgCu and SnPb solder. The results indicate that at high board level strains SnPb solder out performs SnAgCu solder. However, at lower board level strains the SnAgCu solder out performed SnPb. The second phase of the study involves bend testing at even lower board level strains to characterize the high cycle fatigue behaviors of the solders.
Mangrove Mapping and Above-Ground Biomass Change Detection using Satellite Images in Coastal Areas of Thai Binh Province, Vietnam

Mangroves are recognized as a highly valuable resource due to their provision of multiple ecosystem services. Therefore, mangrove ecosystems mapping and monitoring is a crucial objective, especially for tropical regions. Thai Binh province is one of the most important mangrove ecosystems in Vietnam. The mangrove ecosystem in this province has faced threats of deforestation from urban development, land reclamation, tourism activities, and natural disasters. Recently, to maintain the fundamental functions of the ecosystems, a large mangrove area was planted in Thai Binh. The aim of this research is to detect the change in the mangrove areas and to create an aboveground biomass map for mangrove forests in Thai Binh province. Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite images from 1998 to 2018 were analysed using the supervised classification method to detect mangrove area change. Mangrove Above-ground Biomass (AGB) was estimated using linear regression between vegetation indices and field AGB survey. The accuracy assessment for the classified images of 1998, 2003 and 2007, 2013 and 2018 are 93%, 86%, 96%, 94% and 91% respectively with kappa of 0.8881, 0.7953, 0.9357, 0.9114 and 0.8761. The mangrove cover in the study area was estimated at 5874.93 ha in 1998. This figure decreased significantly to 4433.85 ha in 2007, before recovery began to take place in the study area, which was estimated at 6587.88 ha in 2018. In 1998, the average AGB in this study area was 22.57 ton/ha, and in 2018 it was 37.74 ton/ha with a standard error of 12.41 ton/ha and the root mean square error (RMSE) was ±12.08 ton/ha.
NATURE OF GENE ACTION FOR IMMATURE EMBRYO CULTURE ABILITY IN WHEAT (Triticum aestivum L(

The objective of this study was to determine the genetic parameters involved in immature embryo culture ability in wheat (Triticum aestivum L). For this purpose, five lines and two cultivated varieties were used. These lines were: C.B243, C.B245, C.B249, C.B251 and C.B253. While, the two testers were Gemmieza 9 and Gemmieza 10. The results showed the presence of highly significant differences among genotypes for all in vitro traits. This indicated that embryogenic calli induction and its regeneration were affected by the genotypes of the immature embryo donor plants. The line C.B 251 was the most responsive for both embryogenic calli ratio and regenerable calli ratio, while the line C.B243 was the best combiner among other lines in the case of callus fresh weight. The beast combination for all traits was the cross C.B 251× Gemmieza 9. Furthermore, the results revealed that both additive and nonadditive genetic variances played an important role in the inheritance of immature embryo culture traits. However, the magnitude of nonadditive genetic variance was larger than their corresponding estimates of additive genetic variances for callus fresh weight and regenerable calli ratio. This finding was emphasized by the dominance degree value which exceeded unity with respect to these traits. Therefore, it could be concluded that using F1 hybrids for immature embryo culture improvement the ability to induce high ratio of plantlets.
An Improved Method for Quantifying Liquid Saturation Using Transparent Soil

Transparent porous media combined with digital image processing technology can be used to quantify the saturation of local fluids. In this regard, the calibration relationship between the pixel intensity of the image and the saturation of the wetting liquid is the crucial premise for whether this technique can be promoted and applied, and it is also a bottleneck that limits whether this technique can be rapidly and extensively developed. However, owing to gravity-driven effects, wetting liquid in a residual state usually exhibits an irregular boundary caused by the phenomenon of saturation overshoot, which makes it very difficult to use the previous overflow method to obtain the data pair of saturation-pixel intensity accurately. To this end, we have made some improvements to the specific testing method for wetting liquid saturation in the residual state and proposed a local centrifugal sampling method, which considerably improved the accuracy of this method. The results show that the relationship between the pixel intensity and saturation of the transparent soil obtained through this method is generally consistent with the regularity of the previous calibration method but shows better correlation. The results of this study will drive further potential application of transparent soil in the flow of partially saturated porous media.
The knowledge-behavior gap in use of health information

Medical science offers an increasing quantity and quality of information to at‐risk groups, but too often people in a state of information poverty lack access to knowledge that would benefit them. Further, people may “know” what approach they should take to improve their health or other living conditions, but for a variety of reasons may not act on that knowledge. Pacific Island immigrants to New Zealand are especially at risk from cervical cancer, but participate less in cervical screening services than New Zealanders of European descent. This study reports on perceived barriers among New Zealand Pacific women to the use of cervical screening and proposes solutions for improved access to these services. Imperatives of cultural topic avoidance, modesty, and religion created significant barriers to the topic of cervical screening. Respondents strongly favored sources of information that were mediated through their community groups but smear‐takers were preferably non‐Pacific in ethnicity. The respondents' lived experience of “community connectedness” defined them as distinct from recent U.S. studies where participants were seen as highly isolated in their social environments.
The influence of solvents polarity on physicochemical properties and oil yield extracted from pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima) seed

The effect of solvent polarity, polar and non-polar solvents, on pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima) seed oil yield and quality based on selected physicochemical properties was investigated. Five different solvents, like petroleum ether, hexane, cyclohexane, acetone and ethanol were used on a laboratory scale in this study. Results showed that both physicochemical properties and oil yield extracted from the pumpkin seed were influenced by solvent polarity. Oil yield ranged from 4.12 to 27.93%, with higher yield registered in petroleum ether and lowest in ethanol. Results on the physicochemical properties were as follows: Refractive index ranged from 1.437 (cyclohexane) to 1.466 (hexane), acid value, in mg KOH/g oil, ranged from 1.80 (cyclohexane) to 43.54 (ethanol), Peroxide value ranged, in meq O2/kg, from 6.70 (hexane) to 58.11 (ethanol), Iodine value, in g I2/g, ranged from 1.20 (petroleum ether) to 36.73 (ethanol), Saponification value, in mg KOH/kg, ranged from 30.54 (hexane) to 121.14 (acetone). The findings have demonstrated that solvent polarity significantly influenced physicochemical properties and oil yield extracted from pumpkin seed and therefore can assist in selecting solvents required in oil extraction to maximize yield and enhance or maintain oil quality. Key words: Cucurbita maxima, dielectric constant, oil, polarity, phytochemical properties, soxhlet extraction.
Effects of Irrigation Water Salinity and Humic Acid Treatments on Caraway Plants

The present study was carried out during two successive seasons of 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 at the Nursery of Ornamental plants, Fac. of Agric. , Minia University, to study effects of saline water irrigation (250, 1000, 1750 and 2500 ppm) as the main plot and humic acid (control, 100, 200 and 400 mg/l.) as the sub plot and the interaction between them on vegetative growth traits (plant height, number of branches and herb dry weight/plant), fruit and essential oil productivity, as well as, some chemical composition (photosynthetic pigments, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, calcium and proline percentages) of caraway. Under irrigation with saline water ranged from 1000 and 1750 ppm, all studied vegetative growth characters were significantly increased such as fruit yield/plant, oil % and oil yield/plant and some chemical composition (photosynthetic pigments, N, P and K %). Also, humic acid treatments increased all studied parameters but decreased proline %. From results of this research it could be concluded that, caraway plants are moderately tolerant to salinity stress and can be vigorously grown under irrigation with saline water ranged from 1000 to 2500 ppm when sprayed with humic acid at 400 mg/l.
Balanced Scorecard as a tool for research and development performance management – a case study in an agriculture company

Rostouci množstvi odborných clanků a studii na tema řizeni výkonnosti výzkumu a vývoje odraži rozsahle diskuse a otazky týkajici se způsobu, jak výzkum a vývoj hodnotit, měřit jejich přidanou hodnotu a řidit naklady ve vazbě na růst konkurenceschopnosti. Jednou z opomijených oblasti výzkumu v ramci strategickeho manažerskeho ucetnictvi je implementace strategie; existuje malo poznatků o tom, jak jsou nastroje strategickeho manažerskeho ucetnictvi využivany v praxi. Řada autorů zdůrazňuje potřebu výzkumu zaměřeneho na využiti Balanced Scorecard pro řizeni výzkumu a vývoje zejmena v malých a střednich podnicich. Cilem clanku je rozsiřit stavajici poznani v teto oblasti a prostřednictvim připadove studie prezentovat přistup k řizeni výkonnosti výzkumu a vývoje v malých a střednich podnicich s využitim Balanced Scorecard.
TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS OF SWEDISH CENTRAL BANK’S INTEREST RATE OPERATION RULE

This paper estimates a forward-looking Taylor-type interest rate reaction function for Swedish central bank’s inflation-targeting policy and a developed model with the exchange rate taken into account. Based on real-time quarterly macroeconomic time-series from Sweden in the first decade of this century, The evidence suggests that the Swedish central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, was not merely adjusting its repo rate in response to the changes in expected inflation and output deviations. An approach that is known as one of a central bank’s classic regulation tools to deal with domestic inflation first proposed by economist John Taylor. The results show that the targeted exchange rate could be Sveriges Riksbank’s third policy concern in real practice, though in an extraordinarily implicit way. Swedish central bank’s underlying emphasis upon exchange rate stability may shed light on why the inflation record of Sweden in the recent years missed its monetary policy objective. However, the argument that unyielding exercise of the classic Taylor Rule would enhance policy effectiveness in a small open country like Sweden remains in question. JEL: C32; E52; E58; G28
Seasonal variations of some physico-chemical properties of water sources that feed Rivers Wouri and Meme of Cameroon

Rivers Wouri and Meme are surrounded by streams and wells and serve for irrigation, fishing, domestic purposes and transportation. Water samples were collected from the rivers in February (dry season) and August (wet season) of 2012 at different sites and at different depths and analyzed for some physicochemical properties. This was to study the effect of seasonal changes on the properties and also infer the possible sources of pollution. Water from the other sources was also analyzed. All analyses were done using standard methods. The properties were generally higher during the dry season. Both rivers were acidic. The Electrical conductivities (E.Cs) of River Wouri were generally much lower than those of River Meme with mean values of 2943.0 and 5703.0 μS/cm respectively during the dry season. Ca2+/Mg2+ ratios for upstream in River Meme were greater than 3 during the dry season. During the dry season, in Wouri at site WO1, Cations and anions decreased with depth, while at site WO7, the same properties increased with depth. For River Meme at site ME1, there was no significant (p<0.01) variation of cations and anions with depth. On the contrary, at site ME8, the anions increased with depth while the cations decreased significantly (p<0.01) with depth. The streams were weakly basic with average pH of 8.3 for those of Wouri and 9.0 for those around River Meme. The streams around River Wouri generally had higher physicochemical properties. Physicochemical properties of the wells of Wouri were generally higher than those of the streams during both seasons. There was a very significant correlation (p < 0.01) between nitrate and choride ions in both rivers during the dry season. Most of the properties were within the levels set by World Health Organization and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The water sources are exposed to increases in anthropogenic activities, such as industrial and municipal waste disposal and farming practices. A more stringent legislation about water management, as well as studies about the biological content of the water sources is recommended. Key words: Physicochemical, properties, Meme, Wouri, rivers, dry season, wet season.
The Impact of Prior Mentoring and Computer-Mediated Communications Experiences on Willingness to Participate in E-Mentoring

E-mentoring is growing exponentially; as a practice however there is a dearth of research related to this important type of mentoring. This study addresses the impact that participants’ prior experiences with mentoring and computer-mediated communications have on their willingness to participate in e-mentoring programs. Those participants with a higher comfort level in using certain forms of computermediated communications such as chat rooms were more willing to participate in e-mentoring relationships than those with a lower comfort level. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.
Serverless network file systems

We propose a new paradigm for network file system design: serverless network file systems. While traditional network file systems rely on a central server machine, a serverless system utilizes workstations cooperating as peers to provide all file system services. Any machine in the system can store, cache, or control any block of data. Our approach uses this location independence, in combination with fast local area networks, to provide better performance and scalability than traditional file systems. Furthermore, because any machine in the system can assume the responsibilities of a failed component, our serverless design also provides high availability via redundatn data storage. To demonstrate our approach, we have implemented a prototype serverless network file system called xFS. Preliminary performance measurements suggest that our architecture achieves its goal of scalability. For instance, in a 32-node xFS system with 32 active clients, each client receives nearly as much read or write throughput as it would see if it were the only active client.
4-Phenyl-3-[(1 H -1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)methyl]-1 H -1,2,4-triazole-5-thione

The title compound, C11H10N6S, was prepared by the reaction of ethyl 2-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)­acetate with hydrazine and phenyl iso­thio­cyanate. The molecular structure and packing are stabilized by an N—H⋯N intermolecular hydrogen-bond and C—H⋯π interactions.