Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Analysis of management factor contributions to high-yielding corn production systems

Five agricultural management factors were tested in an “omissions treatment” experiment conducted in central Illinois to assess their individual and cumulative contribution to a high-yield corn production system. The five management factors (non-nitrogen (N) fertility, N fertility, hybrid trait, plant population, and fungicide application) were evaluated by establishing 2 levels (traditional and advanced) of each factor. Twelve total treatments consisted of a High Technology (HT) treatment (all advanced factors combined), a Traditional (TRAD) treatment (all traditional factors combined), five treatments of the HT system with each factor individually replaced with its traditional-level counterpart, and five treatments of the TRAD system with each factor individually replaced with it advanced-level counterpart. During years with good season-long growth conditions, like 2009, increased plant population and additional nitrogen (N) fertilizer were the critical factors for increasing crop yield, pushing the system to produce the maximum yield of 14.5 Mg ha. In high-stress years, like 2010, plant health factors, like strobilurin fungicide and corn rootworm-resistant hybrids, was most important by protecting crop yield potential. This data also suggests that plasticity of the corn plant provides flexibility for the plant to adjust its allocation of resources in response to environmental conditions, resulting in a lower probability that increasing plant populations will reduce yields in a bad year relative to the probability that it will increase yields in a good year. Although there were no net differences in grain quality between the HT and TRAD systems, N fertility, plant population, and fungicide application affected kernel protein and oil concentration relative to the other management factors tested. This study suggests that a system of synergies is created when these five agronomic management factors are combined. The results of this 2-year study suggest that corn yields of 13-16 Mg ha are consistently achievable under non-irrigated conditions in the absence of drought when the high-yielding factors tested here are combined.
A student-led interprofessional workshop on conflict management style

Student leadership in interprofessional education is known to bring positive influences to learning collaborative skills for nursing and other health professional trainees. Yet a scarce number of student-led interprofessional activities are described in the literature. This report describes one student-led interprofessional education workshop that is facilitated by personnel from a faculty interprofessional education program. Undergraduate students (N = 23) from nursing, allied health and social service training programs at one university in Toronto, Canada, participated in a one-time workshop regarding conflict management style. Findings from our evaluation survey showed that the workshop was well-received by participants and demonstrated utility and feasibility. Such outcomes provide supportive evidence for fostering student leadership in designing and implementing interprofessional teaching.
Three simultaneous and independent approaches to the characterization of a new species of Labeo (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) from West Africa

A new species of Labeo (Cuvier, 1817) is defined and described from the Upper Niger River and Upper Senegal (Baoule) River basins. Although it is diagnosed as a new species, there is some overlap with two other sympatric species, L. coubie and L. senegalensis, in identifying characters. This overlap is sufficient to introduce the alternative possibility that the putative new species is a hybrid. Three separate techniques were used to test the two competing hypotheses: morphological/morphometric analysis, chromosomal/enzymological analysis, and comparative parasitology. These complementary studies were carried out simultaneously but essentially independently, to minimize any scientific bias during the investigation. It was established that the three species can be distinguished by a combination of mouth morphology and meristics (notably gill raker counts). Though all three have the same chromosome number (2N = 50), the new species can be identified allelically by four homozygous loci that are not present i.
Genetic differentiation among steamer-ducks (Anatidae: Tachyeres): an electrophoretic analysis

Electrophoretic and isoelectric focusing analyses of liver proteins of the steamer-ducks, Tachyeres patachonicus, T. pteneres, T. brachypterus, and T. leucocephalus, how these species to be distinct genetically, with the latter three species being more closely related to one another than any one of them is to T. patachonicus. There is also significant differentiation among populations of T. patachonicus. Estimates of the average calculated heterozygosity per species are high: 0.185, 0.160,O. 165, and 0.084, respectively, and observed heterozygosities are 0.115 I 0.090, 0.202 f 0.118, 0.201 i0.085, and 0.080 f 0.069, respectively. The genetic distances of Cavalli-Sforza and Edwards, Nei, and Rogers were estimated and used with a Wagner tree algorithm to prepare a consensus tree based on 1,000 subsets of allelic frequency data prepared by bootstrapping over loci. Estimates of F,, for comparisons among populations of T. patachonicus and estimates of Nm based on the distribution of private alleles indicate that gene flow between some pairs of populations is significantly reduced. Values of F,, are much higher than those prev-iously found for other pairs of avian populations. Genotypic distributions that deviate significantly from equilibrium expectations are found for several of the polymorphic loci of one or more species.
The Role of WhatsApp in Teaching Vocabulary to Iranian EFL Learners at Junior High School

The availability and the use of mobile messaging applications are increasingly widespread among the new generation of students in Iran. The present study aimed to investigate the role of WhatsApp in the vocabulary learning improvement of Iranian junior high school EFL students. Using a mixed method design, a group of 60 students including 30 male and 30 female students studying at two male and female junior high schools in Isfahan, Iran participated in the study. A pre-test and post-test were used. Four English classes were instructed and the experimental group received vocabulary instructions electronically four days a week for four weeks using the WhatsApp while the control group was taught vocabularies of their textbook inside the classroom by traditional method used in all Iranian schools for teaching English to students. The results revealed that using WhatsApp had significant role in vocabulary learning of the students. The results also showed that there was not a substantial difference between male and female students regarding their vocabulary knowledge after using WhatsApp. The findings of this study can be beneficial to Iranian EFL students, teachers, language schools, policy makers, and syllabus designers.
A study into annotation ranking metrics in geo-tagged image corpora

Community contributed datasets are becoming increasingly common in automated image annotation systems. One important issue with community image data is that there is no guarantee that the associated metadata is relevant. A method is required that can accurately rank the semantic relevance of community annotations. This should enable the extracting of relevant subsets from potentially noisy collections of these annotations. Having relevant, non heterogeneous tags assigned to images should improve community image retrieval systems, such as Flickr, which are based on text retrieval methods. In the literature, the current state of the art approach to ranking the semantic relevance of Flickr tags is based on the widely used tf-idf metric. In the case of datasets containing landmark images, however, this metric is inefficient due to the high frequency of common landmark tags within the data set and can be improved upon. In this paper, we present a landmark recognition framework, that provides end-to-end automated recognition and annotation. In our study into automated annotation, we evaluate 5 alternate approaches to tf-idf to rank tag relevance in community contributed landmark image corpora. We carry out a thorough evaluation of each of these ranking metrics and results of this evaluation demonstrate that four of these proposed techniques outperform the current commonly-used tf-idf approach for this task.
Ultrathin planar inverted‐F antenna for multistandard handsets

A compact multiband internal antenna has been proposed for multistandard personal communication handsets. The antenna simultaneously covers various frequency bands such as GSM, DCS, PCS, UMTS, WiBro, Bluetooth, S‐DMB, and WLAN. Total volume of the antenna is 0.78 cm3 (2.6 cm × 1.5 cm × 0.2 cm) that makes it attractive for multiband slim handsets. Measured performances of the prototype antenna are acceptable at all the targeted frequency bands. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 2894–2897, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23808
The correlation between malocclusions and morphofunctional aspects: analysis of patients aged from 7 to 12 years old

Objective : To classify the malocclusions and their occlusal and morphofunctional aspects in order to establish possible correlations. Material and Methods : The present observational and analytical study was performed within 432 dental records of patients. The patients were aged between 7 and 12 years old (228 males and 204 females) from an Educational Institute in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The data regarding the malocclusions and the related associations underwent parametric statistical tests for quantitative and qualitative analysis (ANOVA, Tukey test and Chi-square) considering the significance level at 5%. Results: Most of the patients had permanent dentition (58.6%), followed by mixed dentition. Angle’s Class II malocclusion was the most prevalent (67.2%), followed by Class I and III. Overbite and anterior open bite represented, respectively, 47% and 7.2% of the vertical discrepancies. The average overbite was 3.08mm, while the average overjet was 4.67mm. Approximately 43,1% of the sample presented moth breathing. Atypical swallowing reached 78.7% of the patients. Statistically significant correlations were observed associating Angle’s Class III malocclusion with anterior cross bite and bilateral posterior cross bite; as well as between Angle’s Class II with overbite, and Angle’s Class I with overbite and atypical swallowing. A correlation was observed between atypical swallowing; the use of pacifiers; and predominant mouth breathing (p<0.001). Conclusion: An important correlation was found between the type of malocclusions and the morphofunctional aspects of occlusion in patients aged from 7 to 12 years old, indicating the need for immediate intervention once the diagnosis is established. Keywords: Applications of epidemiology, Malocclusion, Child.
Attitudes and Perceptions of the Local Community Towards Conservation in Maze National Park, Southern Ethiopia

An investigation on the attitudes and perceptions of the local community towards conservation were carried out in Maze National Park, southern Ethiopia, during April 2011 to February 2012. The study was made through household questionnaire survey, direct observation, group discussion, key informant interviews and the recorded data from the Park office. The majority (55.65%) of the respondents had negative attitude towards the wildlife and 18.26% were indifferent towards the conservation area. Wild animals such as lions ( Panthera leo ) were killed by revenge measures due to livestock loss and crop raiding problems. Awareness creation on the significant values of the newly established National Park to enhance the perception of the local community towards the biodiversity conservation effort is the immediate and crucial task of the Park management and other concerned stakeholders to alleviate the existing serious problems. Keywords: Attitude, Awareness creation, Crop raiding, Livestock predation, Community, Wildlife
Leadership skills and the role of adaptability and creativity in effective leadership: A literature review geared toward an integrative model

Leadership has traditionally been seen as a trait-based and genetically inherited construct. However, contemporary literature proposes that effective leadership is based also on skill, as a mediator of traits and effective leadership. This literature review analyzes the relatively scant literature on effective leader skills. We do so in order to seek which relationship exists between leader traits, skills and effective leadership. Also, given that adaptability and creativity are known to be essential for organizational performance and survival, we analyze which effect creativity and adaptability have on the relationship between skills and effective leadership. By integrating the literature on leadership skills, and an emphasis on creativity and adaptability, we create a new effective leader-skills model. We conclude this literature review with the idea that leader traits, training and experience influence the level of skill an individual can acquire. Also, we conclude that skill in solving organizational problems constitutes effective leadership and that traits can be seen as just one cause of an individual leader’s level of creativity and adaptability, both of which moderate the relationship between skill and effective leadership: by enabling an individual to use their skill effectively in helping to solve novel and complex organizational and follower problems.
Measuring the Effectiveness of Competition Policy: Evidence from the Turkish Cement Industry

In this paper, I develop a new method to test whether the introduction of competition policy in an industry has had any effects on its market performance. The method is based on the new empirical industrial organization methodology. I apply the method to the Turkish cement industry, which has been heavily investigated by the Turkish Competition Authority. The results show that the introduction of competition policy has had no effect in the market performance of the industry.
Négociations salariales et segmentation du marché du travail

Lohnverhandlungen und Arbeitsmarktsegmentation, ; von Pierre Cahuc, Patrick Sevestre, Helene Zajdela. ; ; Dieser Artikel schlagt ein Lohnverhandlungsmodell vor.das geeignet ist, die Arbeitsmarktsegmentation zu erklaren. Mit Hilfe der Spieltheorie nicht-kooperativer Verhaltensweisen wird ein Modell aufgestellt, das verschiedene Bemessungsweisen fur die Lohne zu unterscheiden erlaubt, je nachdem ob die Lohnempfanger Lohne, die hoher als die Marktlohne sind, erhoffen konnen oder nicht, und je nachdem ob die Leistungsfahigkeit des Unternehmens gut oder schlecht ist. Das vorgeschlagene Modell wird mittels einer Stichprobenerhebung von 334 franzosischen Industriebetrieben getestet, die im Zeitraum von 1974 bis 1983 beobachtet wurden. Die Schatzergebnisse scheinen die Relevanz des Modells sowie die ihm korrelierte Typologie der Unternehmen zu bestatigen.
Mineralogical reconnaisance of caves from Mallorca island

Eighteen caves on the Mallorca Island were investigated with respect to their mineralogy. Sixteen minerals, divided into four chemical groups, were identified and described using X-ray diffraction, infrared, thermal, and scanning electron microscope analyses. Calcite is the only mineral found in every sampled cave. Aragonite, gypsum, and hydroxylapatite occur in speleothems from four different caves. In addition, a few other carbonates, phosphates, and silicates were identified in crusts, minute crystals, and earthy masses. The mechanisms responsible for deposition of minerals in the Majorcan caves are: (i) precipitation from percolating water, (ii) precipitation in the freshwater/seawater mixing zone, (iii) reaction between the bedrock and various speleothems, and the phosphate-rich solutions derived from bat guano, and (iv) mineral phase transition. Cova de sa Guitarreta and Cova de ses Rates Pinyades were confirmed to be two outstanding cavities with respect to their mineralogy, both hosting eight true cave minerals. Their phosphate association is diverse and interesting.
Phenotypic diversity for morphological and agronomic traits in traditional Ethiopian highland maize accessions

Farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia have developed locally adapted maize varieties for more than 300 years. In order to assess the phenotypic diversity among traditional Ethiopian highland maize accessions, a total of 180 accessions were evaluated for agro-morphological traits in a replicated randomized complete block design. The accessions varied significantly for all of the measured traits. Cluster analysis revealed the presence of four major clusters. Accessions collected from the different regions were distributed over all the phenotypic clusters, reflecting wide variation within a particular region, but low differentiation among regions. The first principal component, which explained 40.4% of the total variation, was due to days to tasseling and silking, plant and ear height, leaf length and days to maturity. Traits directly selected by farmers (yield, kernels per row, rows per ear, and ear height) had the highest phenotypic coefficient of variation (PCV), whereas indirectly selected traits (ear diameter, days to tasseling and silking) showed lower PCV values. Number of kernels per row had high heritability and genetic advance as percent of the mean and could be used as selection criterion to increase grain yield. Overall, the study indicated the existence of ample trait diversity in highland maize accessions, which can be exploited by hybridization and selection.
The Mediator Role of Internalized Homophobia and Self-Compassion on the Link between Attachment Styles and Depression in Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Individuals

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of internalized homophobia and self-compassion in the relationship between attachment styles and depression among lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals. The participants of the study consisted of 886 LGB individuals whose ages range from 18 to 30 ( =22.73, Sd=3.54). In collecting the data, Experiences in Close Relationships Inventory (ECRI- II), Self-Compassion Scale, Internalized Homophobia Scale (for Gay and Bisexual men), Lesbian Internalized Homophobia Scale, Beck Depression Inventory and Demographic Information Form developed by the researcher were used. Within the context of the study, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was performed to test the proposed models and Maximum Likelihood was implemented as estimation method. In the findings of the study, it was found that internalized homophobia partially mediated the relationship between anxious attachment and depression among men whereas self-compassion didn’t play a mediating role in this relationship. On the other side, an indirect effect through self-compassion and internalized homophobia appeared in the relationship between avoidant attachment and depression while another indirect effect was found in the relationship between anxious attachment and depression among woman by means of only internalized homophobia. Results were discussed in the frame of relevant literature and suggestions were made.
Accrual Quality and Stock Price Informativeness: Evidence from India.

This study examines the relationship between accrual quality and stock price informativeness. Study used secondary data collected from prowess database similar to prior studies Ansari &Khan 2012 and Dhole, et al. 2012. The study used sample of 91 companies listed in BSE 100 during the period of 2007 to 2011. We employed Breusch-Pegan Lagrange multiplier (LM) to select panel regression model and also eliminate the effect of outliers by deciles rank of accrual quality similar with prior study (Johnston 2009 and Jing 2007). We employed random effect panel regression model to investigate relationship between accrual quality and stock price informativeness. The results suggest that accrual quality is positively related to stock price informativeness. The present findings are similar with Jing (2007) and Johnston 2009 who find positive significantly association between accrual quality and stock price informativeness in USA. Results support that accrual quality matters in the process of incorporating firm specific information. Keywords: Stock price informativeness, Stock price synchronicity, Earnings quality, and Accrual quality: synchronicity and informative will be interchangeable to mean inverse of each other.
Modelling ternary effects on antiphase boundary energy of Ni3Al

The shearing of ordered γ′ precipitates by matrix dislocations results in the formation of antiphase boundaries (APB) in Ni-base superalloys. The APB energy is an important source of order-strengthening in disk and blade alloys where Ti and Ta substitute for Al in γ′. While the importance of APB energy is well-acknowledged, the effect of alloying on APB energy is not fully understood. In the present study, the effect of Ti and Ta additions on the {111} and {010} APB energies was probed via electronic structure calculations. Results suggest that at low levels of Ti/Ta, APB energies on either plane increases with alloying. However, at higher Ti/Ta levels, the APB energies decrease with alloying. These trends understood by accounting for nearest neighbour violations about the APB and additionally, invoking the effect of precipitate composition on the energy penalty of the violations. We propose an Environment Dependent Nearest Neighbour Bond (EDNNB) model that predicts APB energies that are in close agreement to calculated values.
Pilot study of anxiety, depression, and quality of life in patients with the diagnosis of metastatic uveal melanoma.

Background: Awareness of a patient’s anxiety, depression, and quality of life (QOL) in those with metastatic uveal melanoma (MUM) can influence care that meets patients’ bio-psychosocial-spiritual needs. Objectives: To measure the level of anxiety, depression, and QOL in patients with MUM and explore differences by gender, age range, time to metastatic disease, and duration of illness since metastasis. Methods: We used a descriptive-comparative survey design. Over three months, a convenience sample of 70 patients with MUM aged ≥ 18 years, treated at a Mid-Atlantic hospital were invited to complete a combined survey of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF. Results: There were 65 respondents (93% response rate). 30.8% (n=20) had at least borderline anxiety, 13.8% (n=9) had at least borderline depression, and 32.3% (n=21) had a decrease in global QOL. Patients 18 to ≤ 60 years had higher anxiety scores (p=0.003) and lower QOL scores in environmental health (p=0.006). Those with a shorter duration of illness since metastasis had higher anxiety scores (p=0.01) and higher QOL scores in physical health (p=0.05). No differences were found by gender or time to metastatic disease. Conclusions: Up to 30% of participants had at least borderline anxiety and a decreased global QOL while up to 10% had at least borderline depression. These findings support the integration of bio-psycho-social-spiritual practices in the care of patients with MUM. ANXIETY-DEPRESSION-QUALITY OF LIFE 3