Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ESTIMATION OF SOME PARAMETERS, HETEROSIS AND HERITABILITY FOR YEILD AND MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS IN INBRED LINE OF MAIZE(Zea mays L) USING LINE X TESTER METHOD

The study was conducted at field experiment College of Agriculture– in Dohuk University during spring and autumn season (2007). Fourteen inbred lines (genotypes) of corn were used for this study, ten genotypes namely (ZP-204, Zp-301, ZP-595, ZP-670, ZP-430, ZP-505, UN44652, ZP –735, OH 40, and DK-17) were used as line males and four genotypes (ZP197, ZP-607, ZP-707, UN-44052) were used as testers (females), every genotype was planted in row with 400 cm along, 75cm between rows and 25cm between plants. A line x tester method was used which was suggested by (Kempthorne, 1957), for estimation the general combining ability of parent and specific combining ability of their F1 hybrids. Genetic components resulting from additive and non-additive type of gene action were also estimated. Heterosis was measured as a deviation of from the mid-parents. The proportional contribution of lines, testers and line x tester interaction, average degree of dominance, heritability in broad and narrow sense and expected genetic advance were determined. In spring season crossing was done, and in autumn season assessment (54) genotypes (40 F1 + 10Lines + 4 Testers). The result shows: Significant positive heterosis in F1 generation over midparent values in favorable direction was obtained for most studied characters of hybrids also significant negative heterosis in desirable direction was recorded for days to 50% tasseling and days to 50% silking. Heritability in broad sense was high for all studied characters while heritability in narrow sense was high for days to 50% tasseling, plant height and ear height. The value of additive gene effects was more than the value of dominance gene for days to 50% tasseling, plant height, ear height and leaf area, while the value of dominance gene effects was higher than the value of additive gene effects for days to 50% silking and chlorophyll. The average degree of dominance was greater than one for days to 50% tasseling days to 50% silking and chlorophyll. Introduction
Silence Is Golden: Political Connection and Corporate Disclosure of Government Subsidies

This paper examines the association between firms’ political connection and their voluntary disclosure on government subsidies using a sample of Chinese non-state-owned enterprises. For the sample period 2007-2016, we find that politically connected subsidy-receiving firms provide a lower amount of subsidy disclosures through annual reports than unconnected ones. This association is not due to the general lower disclosure incentives of connected firms, is mainly driven by connected firms whose subsidies are difficult to justify, is stronger for firms registered in provinces with a higher level of corruption and firms with higher media attention, and becomes weaker following the anti-corruption campaign starting in late 2012. These findings suggest that politically connected subsidy recipients tend to withhold subsidy information to reduce the costs for the politicians they connect to and themselves from the public scrutiny of subsidies granted through relationships. Consistent with this interpretation, we further show that politically connected firms are granted more subsidies and this association is stronger in provinces with a higher level of corruption and becomes weaker following the anti-corruption campaign.
Do Female CEOs Make a Difference in Firm Operations? Evidence from Vietnam

This paper examines the effect of gender in corporate leadership on the performance and risk of Vietnamese listed firms. We find that firms with female CEOs generate higher profitability than those with male CEOs. In addition, firms led by female CEOs experience less systematic and idiosyncratic risks as well as lower volatility in their returns on assets. These results are robust under different regression specifications. Our results support the hypothesis that women offer unique perspectives, experiences, and work styles that benefit firms and that provide evidence for continuing government efforts to improve gender equality in Vietnam.
THE IMPACT OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ON EARNINGS MANAGEMENT IN KOREA

The purpose of this study is to analyze whether an improvement in corporate governance can mitigate earnings management. Our study further investigates corporate governance factors that mitigate the earnings management practices. Our sample consists of the companies listed on the Korea Stock Exchange as of 2004 and 2005. The degree of earnings management is measured by discretionary accruals and total accruals. We use mean difference tests and regression analyses to investigate the impact of corporate governance on earnings management. The main variables of interest in our study are the activities of outside directors in board meetings, the establishment of an audit committee, concentrated ownership and foreign ownership. We find that the independence of the board of directors, ownership concentration, foreign ownership, leverage ratio and firm size significantly affect discretionary accruals and total accruals. In sum, our results partially support the hypothesis that corporate governance and earnings management are significantly related. However, we find that the adoption of an audit committee does not significantly affect the degree of accruals.
Sustainable Development In Exports Of Herbals And Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani And Homoeopathy (Ayush) In India

India has 15 Agro climatic zones and 17000-18000 species of flowering plants of which 6000-7000 are estimated to have medicinal usage in folk and documented systems of medicine, like Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy. About 960 species of medicinal plants are estimated to be in trade of which 178 species have annual consumption levels in excess of 100 metric tons. Medicinal plants are not only a major resource base for the traditional medicine & herbal industry but also provide livelihood and health security to a large segment of Indian population. The domestic trade of the AYUSH industry is of the order of Rs. 80 to 90 billion (1US$ = Rs.50). The Indian medicinal plants and their products also account of exports in the range of Rs. 10 billion. There is global resurgence in traditional and alternative health care systems resulting in world herbal trade which stands at US$ 120 billion and is expected to reach US$ 7 trillion by 2050. Indian share in the world trade, at present, however, is quite low. The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB) set-up in November 2000 by the Government of India has the primary mandate of coordinating all matters relating to medicinal plants and support policies and programmes for growth of trade, export, conservation and cultivation. The Board is located in the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha & Homeopathy (AYUSH) of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
Determination of carvacrol content in Alaska yellow cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis) extractives

Extractives, such as carvacrol, play a major role in the durability of Alaska yellow cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis) heartwood. However, it is a slow and complicated process to identify the levels of these compounds in individual timbers. This study investigated the feasibility of attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, coupled with hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) and principal component analysis (PCA), for detecting carvacrol in wood. Alaska yellow cedar was extracted using sequential Soxhlet extraction with toluene-ethanol, followed by ethanol and hot water. The extracted samples were milled, and the powders were treated with different concentrations of carvacrol. The spectral analysis of the wood that contained carvacrol was conducted using ATR-FTIR and NIR spectroscopy, and the peaks indicative of carvacrol were identified. The chemometric analysis on the spectral data using PCA and HCA distinguished the wood with high (> 34%) and low (< 3.5%) carvacrol concentrations. The results suggest that infrared spectroscopy can be a non-destructive tool for the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of extractives, and possibly for the rapid assessment of Alaska yellow cedar durability.
Being a NEET in Turkey: Determinants and Consequences

For a young person, unemployment is one of the most important obstacles to enjoying life. However, recent research has shown that even willingness to work, which forms a key element in unemployment calculations, is not uniformly distributed across society. Those who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) comprise a significant portion of society, in Turkey reaching 32 percent of young people aged 15–24, and a high 46 percent of young women. In this paper, we examine the determinants of being a NEET in Turkey, and its consequences in terms of trust, political participation and political efficacy.
Tax Avoidance Practice: Political Connection, Firm Characteristics and Audit Quality Test at Banking Industry in Indonesia

This study aims to examine the influence of political connections, firm characteristics and Audit Quality on Tax Avoidance. The samples are 39 banking companies which are listed in IDX over the 2014-2016 periods with total 101 observations. The sample collection technique has been done by using purposive sampling. Hypotheses of this research were tested by multiple regression models. Independent variables consist of Political Connection, Firm Characteristics (which are proxied by Leverage and Capital Intensity), and Audit Quality. While dependent variable is Tax Avoidance. The result showed that only Political Connections having a significant influence on Tax Avoidance. Leverage, Firm Characteristics and also Audit Quality did not have a significant influence on Tax Avoidance.
Role Of Bldc Motor Drives In Vehicular Applications

This paper describes the performance of Brushless DC motor (BLDC) drive system. BLDC motors are widely used in applications which require a wide range of speed and torque control as of its reduced inertia, quick response, improved reliability, and maintenance free. This paper also explains the role of BLDC motor drive for electric vehicle operation. It is based on the function relationship between the Hall sensor logics and currents that must be supplied to each phase of the motor. The controller is successfully simulated by means of Matlab/Simulink and simulation result shows that the digital controllers have a simpler circuit and have better speed performance than a conventional controller.
Effect of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) on severity of stress in emergency medical technicians

Background and objectives: People working in health care centers and hospitals, especially the emergency departments, often experience severe stresses due to the nature of their jobs. The current study was aimed at determining the effect of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) on severity of stress of medical emergency technicians. Materials and methods: In the current ﬁ eld trial, 50 emergency medical technicians working in emergency medical centers were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned to either the intervention or control group; each group had 25 subjects. In the intervention group, EMDR training was provided during ﬁ ve consecutive sessions, while in the control group the subjects did not receive any intervention. The data collection instrument in the study, in addition to the demographic questionnaire, was the Alken stress scale. Data had normal distribution and were analyzed using independent t , the Mann – Whitney, or chi-squared tests, and their within-group comparisons were performed by paired t and marginal homogeneity tests. Results: The mean score of stress before and after the intervention in the intervention and control groups was 32.2±7.8 and 33.6±13.8, respectively. However, after EMDR implementation, the intensity of stress in the intervention and control groups was 25.9±7.3 and 33 ±13.1, respectively and the difference between the groups was statistically signi ﬁ cant ( P <0.05). Chi-squared test showed that after the intervention, the degree of stress intensity in the experimental group was lower than that of the control group, and there was a signi ﬁ cant difference between the groups in terms of stress intensity ( P <0.05). Conclusion: The current study results indicated that EMDR technique signi ﬁ cantly reduced the intensity of stress in the intervention group and can be helpful to control stress experienced by emergency medical staff.
Low birth weight is linked to timing of prenatal care and other maternal factors.

Certain maternal behavioral factors—including receiving prenatal care low pregnancy-related weight gain and smoking during pregnancy—are significantly associated with low birth weight according to a 2001 survey of women who gave birth in public hospitals in western Mexico. Social demographic and economic factors—including age union status locality size and working during pregnancy— have an indirect effect on low birth weight through their associations with prenatal care. To identify factors associated with low birth weight researchers recruited for a 2001 survey women giving birth at one of eight Ministry of Health public hospitals in two western Mexican states. All women who had delivered a low-birth-weight infant (defined as weighing less than 2500g) were eligible for the survey; researchers randomly selected a sample of mothers of normal- weight infants to participate. Trained female interviewers asked participants while in the hospital’s recovery ward about their social and demographic characteristics and certain behavioral factors (i.e. smoking during pregnancy prenatal care and pregnancy-related weight gain) and whether they had experienced health problems or hospitalization during pregnancy. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine which factors were associated with low birth weight and with prenatal care. (excerpt)
Study effect moisture content of grain and speed in some indicators technical to milling machines

Experiment was conducted to evaluate effect moisture content of grain and speed in some indicators technical to wheat cultivar, Ahwaz 1 in the labrotaries of the University of Tehran to2015. Research include using two types of machines ( Cylinder and Hammer), under three levels from moisture conten of grain (13-15% , 1517% and 17-19%),and three levels from speed (0.717 , 0.820 and 0.921 ) . The results indicated that the machine type Cylinder was significantly better on the machine type Hammer in all studies traits. As well as moisture grain 13-15% was superiorly significantly on two levels 15-17%,17-19% in all studied traits . While speed 0.921 significant superiorly on two levels 0.717,0.820 in all studies traits except the percentage of breakage grain which gives result best with the speed level o.717 . The overlap between the machine type Cylinder and grain moisture content 13-15% superiority significantly and also overlap between the machine type Cylinder to speed 0.921 in all studied traits except the percentage of breakage grain . Compared overlap to the machine type Hammer with moisture content of grain and two speed in all studied traits. The best results have come from the triple overlap among machine type Cylinder, grain moisture (13-15%), and speed 0.921 in all studies tirats except percentage of breakage grain which gives the best result with overlap 0.717 to moisture content of grain 13-15% and machine type Cylinder . Key worde:Production Process, Power Consumeption, Milling Recovery, Degree of Milling, Percentage of Breakage of grain , Milling Efficiency.
Binocular Vision and Ocular Motility

analysis employed by these authors did not provide 'a precise assessment of the effect of diabetic duration on lens biometry. ' In terms of the diabetic subgroup the only similarity in the findings of these two studies was that they both demonstrated diabetic duration to be relevant to lens thickness. JOHN M SPARROW Department ofOphthalmology, University ofLeicester, LeicesterRoyal Infirmary, LeicesterLEl SWW
Improving the Robustness of Deep Reading Comprehension Models by Leveraging Syntax Prior

Despite the remarkable progress on Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) with the help of open-source datasets, recent studies indicate that most of the current MRC systems unfortunately suffer from weak robustness against adversarial samples. To address this issue, we attempt to take sentence syntax as the leverage in the answer predicting process which previously only takes account of phrase-level semantics. Furthermore, to better utilize the sentence syntax and improve the robustness, we propose a Syntactic Leveraging Network, which is designed to deal with adversarial samples by exploiting the syntactic elements of a question. The experiment results indicate that our method is promising for improving the generalization and robustness of MRC models against the influence of adversarial samples, with performance well-maintained.
Correlação dos achados clínicos e hematológicos com diagnóstico definitivo de erliquiose canina por meio de PCR Correlation of clinical and hematological with definitive diagnosis of canine ehrlichiosis by PCR

The Ehrlichiosis is a worldwide diseases of great importance in a veterinary medicine is an important infectious diseases whose prevalence has increased significant in the last year in the Brazilian states. Due to the fact that this study was designed to correlate the findings hematological clinical signs and PCR, being the most sensitive. This study evaluated twenty dogs seen at veterinary hospital UNESP – Botucatu campus during the 03 from august to September 28 2009. Animal cited 65% were positive in the PCR test. Among the most prominent clinical findings 76.92% (10/13) with anorexia, 53.84% (7/13) with hepatoesplenomegaly, 46.15% (6/13) with apathy and 38.46% (5/13) epistaxis. The thirteen animals positive PCR 92.30% (12/13) showed thrombocytopenia (<150.000 platelets) e 61.53 (8/13) anemic (<5.50 x10). Thus, we conclude that the PCR was a good method for detection differential canine ehrlichiosis may be adopted together with the clinical and hematological findings for the accurate diagnosis of the disease.
Idiosyncratic Risk in Emerging Markets: Properties and Portfolio Implications

I examine the properties and portfolio management implications of value-weighted idiosyncratic volatility in 24 emerging markets. This paper provides evidence against the view that the rise of idiosyncratic risk is a global phenomenon. Specific and market risks jointly predict market returns, as there is a negative (positive) relation between idiosyncratic (market) risk and subsequent stock returns. Idiosyncratic volatility is the most important component of tracking error volatility, and it does not exhibit either an upward or a downward trend. Thus, investors do not have to increase, on average, the number of stocks they hold to keep the active risk constant. I would like to thank an anonymous referee, Nikolaos Tessaromatis and Dimitrios Thomakos for their constructive comments that greatly improved the paper. I also thank Timothy Vogelsang for providing his Gauss codes. I retain full responsibility for any remaining errors.
Telomerase and apoptosis in human hematopoietic cell lines: modulation of the radiation response by pharmacological inhibition of DNA repair enzymes

Telomeres play an important role in genome stability maintenance and have been related to radiation sensitivity. Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein involved in telomere maintenance and cell survival. DNA-repair enzymes might be selective targets for enhancing radiation sensitivity of tumor cells. We investigated the effect of wortmannin and 3-aminobenzamide (3-AB) on telomerase activity (TA) and apoptosis in two human leukemia cell lines. MOLT-4 (p53-wild type) and KG1a (p53-null) cells were irradiated with γrays (3 Gy at 1.57 Gy/min). Cell cultures were treated with 1μM wortmannin, an inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI 3-K) and 10mM 3-AB, a poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor. TA was measured by PCR and the expression of hTERT, hTR and TP1 was assessed by RT-PCR. Apoptosis was evaluated by fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry, which also allowed to analyze cell cycle distribution. A radiation-induced up-regulation of TA was observed from 4h-post-irradiation (p.i) in both cell lines. This upregulation was abrogated by wortmannin and 3-AB. TA was maximal 24h p.i. , coinciding with an accumulation of hTERT mRNA. Apoptosis and G2/M arrest were evident from 4h p.i. in MOLT-4 cells. KG1a cells exhibited G2/M block at 24h-p.i. and apoptosis increased thereafter. Three-AB abolished G2/M blockage and enhanced radiation-induced apoptosis in both cell lines. While wortmannin increased early apoptosis in MOLT-4 cells, it did not radiosensitize KG1a cells. This study demonstrates that ionizing radiation induces a transient upregulation of TA in MOLT-4 and KG1a cell lines. Our findings indicate the participation of post-transcriptional mechanisms in the regulation of TA during the first hours p.i. , whereas transcriptional activation of hTERT seems to be contributing to the peak of TA observed later. We provide evidence that , besides their known roles as PI3K and PARP inhibitors, wortmannin and 3-AB also inhibit both constitutive and up-regulated TA, with different consequences on the radiation induced apoptotic cell death of MOLT-4 and KG1a cells.
Review of selected geophysical methods used in the assessment of water resources for agriculture

In the recent decade Poland was repeatedly affected with severe droughts that caused significant losses in the agricultural sector. To minimize the effects of hydrological drought and rationalize the management of water for agricultural purposes, a continuous monitoring of ground water should be implemented country-wide. Such a monitoring network already exists in Poland – State Groundwater Monitoring, based upon direct measurements, however its density and temporal resolution is too coarse to effectively inform about the levels of groundwater and its availability for agriculture. The existing monitoring network can be supplemented with various remote geophysical methods, allowing wide-area estimations on groundwater availability. This publication aims at screening available geophysical methods and their suitability for assessing groundwater levels and stocks.