Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of Plant Extracts on Mortality and Tunneling Activities of Subterranean Termites in Pakistan

Plant extracts offer a vast, virtually untapped reservoir of chemical compounds with many potential uses. One of these uses is in agriculture to manage pests with less risk than with synthetic compounds that are toxicologically and environmentally undesirable. Increasing evolution of resistance in pest population further derives the need to search for new bioactive compounds with a wide range of new modes of action. Various experiments using plant extracts in human and animal health protection, agriculture and household pest management have been particularly promising (Pascual-Villalobos & Robledo, 1999; Scott et al., 2004). The apparent societal hope for using plant extracts in place of more traditional pesticides has also increased the attention paid to natural products in the past decade (Duke et al., 2003). Plant products have been exploited as insecticides, insect-repellents, antifeedants and insect growth and development regulators (Saxena, 1998). The deleterious effects of phytochemcials or crude plant extracts on insects are manifested in several ways, including suppression of calling behaviour (Khan & Saxena, 1986), growth retardation (Breuer & Schmidt, 1995), toxicity (Hiremath et al., 1997), oviposition deterrence (Zhao et al., 1998), feeding inhibition (Wheeler & Isman, 2001) and reduction of fecundity and fertility (Muthukrishnan & Pushpalatha, 2001). Many plants have been recognized to have anti-termitic activities (Sakasegawa et al., 2003, Park & Shin, 2005, Jembere et al., 2005, Cheng et al., 2007, Ding & Hu, 2010, Supriadi and Ismanto, 2010) or repellent to the termites i.e., Eucalyptus globules, lemmon grass, Eucalyptus citrodora, cedar wood, clove bud and vetiver grass (Zhu et al., 2001a, b), Taiwania cryptomerioides Hayat (Chang et al., 2001), Dodonaea viscosa (Purple hop bush) a termite resistant shrub (Anonymous, 2001), Ocimum basilicum L. , Cymbopogon winterianus Jowitt, Cinammomum camphora, Rosmarinus officinalis (Sbeghen et al., 2002) and Coleus ambionicus (Singh et al., 2004) are less extensively studied against termites.
Spectral properties of In II from MCDHF calculations

We report extensive relativistic multiconfiguration Dirac–Hartree–Fock calculations of oscillator strengths and hyperfine structures for a large number of electric dipole transitions in In II. Results for the 5s21S0–5s5p3Po0 hyperfine induced transition are also presented. Core polarization is accounted for by means of explicit CI. To describe spin–polarization effects configuration state functions obtained by single excitations from all core-shells are included in the expansions. The computed oscillator strength for the 5s21S0–5s5p3Po1 intercombination transition is in good agreement with laser spectroscopy measurements of In+ ions in a radio-frequency trap. The calculated magnetic dipole hyperfine interaction constants agree very well with experimental constants derived from Fourier transform spectra. The problem with off-diagonal interactions affecting the hyperfine structures in closely spaced fine-structure levels is discussed.
Current Trend of Corneal Ulcer In Patients Attending a Tertiary Healthcare Centre

Purpose: To study the epidemiological characteristics and etiology of corneal ulcer at a tertiary healthcare centre of upper Assam. Materials and Methods: The present prospective hospital based study was carried out on 60 consecutive corneal ulcer cases attending outpatient and admitted in in-patient department of ophthalmology, Assam Medical College. After clinical and slit-lamp biomicroscopic examination, corneal scrapings were collected from all the corneal ulcer cases and subjected to microscopy and culture. Results: Out of 60 consecutive patients having keratitis, 37 (61.66%) were found to be culture positive. Rate of detection of bacterial, fungal and mixed growth were respectively 32.43%, 59.48% and 5.40%. Patients from rural background constitute 71.6% (43). Ocular trauma 51 (85%) was the most common predisposing factor followed by acute and chronic dacryocystitis 4 (6.66%) and diabetesmellitus 3(5%) . Bamboo stick injuries accounted for 19(37.25%) cases followed by injuries by paddy leaves 10(19.6%) and tea leaves 8 (15.6%). Out of 12 bacterial isolates, Streptococcus pneumonia 4(33.3%) was predominant followed by Staphylococcus Aureus 3 (25%). Out of the fungal isolates, 9 (40.9%) were Fusarium species followed by 6 (27.27%) Aspergillus species. Conclusions: Fungi are the major cause of corneal ulcer in the rural population of Assam with ocular trauma being the major risk factor.
Key Determinants of Brand-Customer Relationship in Hospital Industry

Brand building is in conjunction with the customers and it is supported by a clearly defined brand identity, as the customer’s value statement is the basis for all action in the organization. Thus, it ensures that customers’ brand experience is coherent, accessible and satisfying at every contact. This research is attempting to examine the relationships of brands with their customers, according to an investigation made on the experienced patient of the branded hospital. This paper explores whether or not the brand forms a relationship with the customers. This study was organized in one of the well-branded hospitals in Chennai. Out of 680 beds, the 365 patients who stayed for at least 4 days as inpatients were considered as respondents for this study. The schedule has been prepared to study the research objective. The data is analyzed with appropriate statistical tools, such as descriptive statistics, correlation and stepwise multiple regression. It is concluded that brand image, brand loyalty and patient satisfaction provide clear insight of the customer’s relationship with the brand.
Clustering and its application to GIS

Pattern recognition is an emerging field in the modern computations. The modern world is gradually moving towards the generic solutions rather than specific solution to a problem. For this the recognition of the pattern of the problem is very important. On the other hand, learning is also pattern recognition. Clustering is a field of pattern recognition or pattern classification where the leveled data are not available. i.e. the unsupervised type pattern classification is clustering. This is more challenging because the domain knowledge is not available in clustering. This article is a survey of the clustering techniques that have been explored by the author and the application of them in the field of geographic information systems.
Values Narratives for Personal Growth: Formative Evaluation of the Laws of Life Essay Program

Evidence that even very brief writing exercises can change the way people see themselves and promote more positive mental and physical health has led to increased interest in their use in school settings and elsewhere. To date, however, research designs rely heavily on samples of college students and experimental studies of writing tasks carried out in the lab. There has been less investigation of the potential impact of more naturally occurring expressive writing exercises that exist in places like schools and that focus on adolescents. The current study was a process evaluation of the Laws of Life Essay, a values-based narrative program that was part of participants’ secondary school experience. It examined participants’ views of the impact of the program on their personal growth and, given the age range of participants, allowed for process evaluation of its perceived short- and long-term effects. Qualitative, semistructured interviews with 55 adolescent and adult participants were collected. Themes in participants’ responses included the importance of reflection and reappraisal of values, adversity, and relationships. Participants also discussed the importance of an audience for their writing, a novel finding that suggests one possible way to increase the impact of other narrative programs. Participants described variability in their engagement with expressive writing. This is one of the few studies that examined participants’ own views of the value of expressive writing and their responses suggest directions for future research and implications for designing expressive writing tasks to support social emotional learning and character education in schools and promote well-being at key developmental moments.
Movements, winter distribution and activity patterns of Falkland and brown skuas: Insights from loggers and isotopes

In the first published study of the wintering ranges and activity patterns of skuas from any colony, we combined tracking (geolocator) and stable isotope analysis in a comparison of migra- tion behaviour of brown skuas Catharacta lonnbergi and Falkland skuas C. antarctica from South Georgia and the Falkland Islands, respectively. Brown skuas, particularly failed breeders, departed and returned to the colony much earlier than Falkland skuas, and 2 of 3 brown skuas performed a pre-laying exodus. During winter, brown skuas were distributed widely over deep, oceanic water within the Argentine Basin (37 to 52° S) between the Antarctic Polar Front and the northern sub-trop- ical Front. Falkland skuas, by comparison, wintered mainly in subantarctic waters around the central Patagonian shelf-break (40 to 52° S). Much greater overlap existed among core areas within than between species, and sex did not influence distribution. The partial inter-specific spatial segregation was also reflected in a divergence in activity patterns, with brown skuas in flight for a greater propor- tion, and more time on average, during both daylight and darkness. Both species of skua spent far more time on the water than do foraging albatrosses, and there was limited overlap between their nonbreeding distributions and those of large procellariids from the same archipelagos. Stable isotope signatures of brown skua feathers indicated that distributions of tracked birds were typical of most or all of the breeding population, and were consistent from year to year. None was characteristic of species that winter on adjacent continental shelves or off south-west Europe. Isotope values also sug- gested a mixed diet for brown skuas of zooplankton, low trophic-level squid and fish, with little or no reliance on seabird predation or fisheries.
Task Complexity: Extending a Core Concept

We reexamine the assumptions of current theory to update and extend the concept of task complexity to tasks that include multiple actors at any level of analysis. Tasks can be modeled as networks of required actions and information cues carried out or processed by particular actors. Counting pathways in the task network provides an index of task complexity that incorporates insights from organization research but is more consistent with contemporary complexity science than prior approaches and better reflects the exponential nature of the phenomenon. The revised concept of task complexity can be readily used as an independent or dependent variable, and it can be used to compare observed and idealized descriptions of tasks. We discuss its implications for developing theory.
THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF GABRIELITE, Tl2AgCu2As3S7, A NEW SPECIES OF THALLIUM SULFOSALT FROM LENGENBACH, SWITZERLAND

Nous avons affine la structure cristalline de la gabrielite au moyen de donnees en diffraction X (rayonnement MoKα, detecteur a aire de type CCD) obtenues sur monocristal, jusqu'a un residu conventionnel R 1 de 0.0486. Ce mineral cristallise dans le groupe spatial P1, avec a 12.138(3), b 12.196(3), c 15.944(4) A, a 78.537(5), p 84.715(4), γ 60.470(4)°, et Z= 2. La formule chimique decoulant de l'analyse structurale, Tl 6 Ag 2.61 Cu 6.39 As 8.55 Sb 0.45 5 21 , concorde assez bien avec les resultats de l'analyse chimique. On peut la representer ainsi: Tl6(Ag,Cu) 3 IV (Cu,Ag) 6 III (As,Sb) 9 S 21 ; ici, IV indique la coordinence tetraedrique, et III, la coordinence trigonale planaire. Il y a des groupes pyramidaux AsS 3 isoles et en anneaux a quatre membres. L'atome Tl adopte plusieurs coordinences, allant de trigonale prismatique et antiprismatique a antiprismatique carree, ainsi que des arrangements plus complexes a coordinence 7 et 9. Une caracteristique de cette structure est la presence de plusieurs contacts courts entre les atomes Tl possedant un caractere fortement exprime a paires d'electrons isoles, et les atomes de Cu (Tl-Cu allant de 3.03 a 3.08 A). Il y a aussi un contact T1-T1 court, seulement 3.09 A, entre atomes dans une coordinence trigonale antiprismatique applatie. Les memes atomes Tl font preuve de courtes liaisons Tl-As (3.11 A) traversant les paires d'electrons isoles de As. Cette coordinence du Tl est du meme genre que dans le compose Li 5 Ti 2 . Il s'agit des contacts Tl-Cu, T1-T1 et Tl-As les plus courts qui aient ete signales dans les sulfosels jusqu'a ce point. La structure est faite de couches, avec deux sortes de couches portant le soufre, une avec un reseau 3 4 . 6, et l'autre composee de triangles, de carres et de pentagones, avec des symetries planaires idealisees de p3 et p31m, respectivement. Les polyedres de coordinence des cations forment trois plaques, deux avec une symetrie planaire idealisee P3 et une avec la symetrie C2/m. Une des deux plaques pseudotrigonales est en fait le point de depart d'une serie hypothetique d'homologues de structures cycliquement maclees de sulfosels. Les symetries internes de ces plaques menent a un loi de macle ayant (100) comme plan de macle, ce qui rend possible l'existence de plusieurs polytypes OD potentiels.
Generic Statements, Causal Attributions, and Children’s Naive Theories

G statements express generalizations about entire categories (e.g., “ Birds lay eggs,” “ Boys like sports”) and are thus a powerful means of transmitting and acquiring information. Above and beyond their role in information transfer, however, generic statements shape children’s causal inferences about the generalizations they express. In this chapter, I trace the infl uence of this process on children’s theories about the natural and social world, as well as on their motivation and performance in achievement contexts. Th e ability to divide the world into discrete categories (e.g., chairs, dogs, teenagers) is a key feature of human cognition because it allows us to conceive of indefi nite numbers of distinct individuals as being equivalent in some respects—as being the same kind of thing. Th is assumed equivalence reduces the informational complexity of our environments and, crucially, facilitates broad generalizations across individuals in a category. Such category-wide generalizations are pervasive in everyday thought and behavior. For example, every time people assume that it is safe to sit on a chair they have never used before or to approach a stranger’s dog, they are relying on category-wide, or generic , generalizations about chairs and dogs, respectively (i.e., that chairs are sturdy and that dogs are friendly). Given the central role of these generic generalizations in our cognitive lives, it is natural to ask how they are formed or acquired in childhood. Undoubtedly, children’s own interactions with the world are a source. Seeing a particular dog’s friendly behavior, for instance, would provide a child with some grounds for extending this feature to the category dog as a whole. However, despite children’s apparent willingness to make projections of this sort (e.g., Gelman & Markman, 1986; Xu & Tenenbaum, 2007), inductive generalizations are by necessity uncertain, insofar as any set of observations can support an infi nite number of alternative generalizations with equal legitimacy (e.g., furry, four-legged things are friendly; Goodman, 1965).
Raised Uric Acid Level and Fetal Outcome in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy

Aims : This study was done to find the relation of raised uric acid with fetal outcome in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and to compare the fetal outcome with normal and raised uric acid level . Methods: This was a hospital based cross-sectional prospective comparative study done in Paropakar maternity and Women’s hospital conducted over three month period. Results: During the study period, a total of 126 cases of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy were identified among 3819 obstetric cases. The incidence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in this study was 3.3%. Fifty seven of them were found to have serum uric acid level <5.5 mg% (Group A), 43 of them were found to have serum uric acid level ≥5.5mg% (Group B). In those developing hyperuricemia 54.81% had mild hypertension, 40.91% had severe hypertension. Adverse perinatal outcome with serum uric acid level ≥5.5mg/dl had stillbirth in 7%, had low birth weight in 27.9%, 11.6 % were admitted in special care baby unit and 18.6 % had apgar <7 at five minute. Conclusions: Perinatal morbidity and mortality was increased in women with raised uric acid level except admission to special baby care unit Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are associated with high maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.3126/njog.v9i1. 11196 NJOG 2014 Jan-Jun; 2(1):78-81
Conditional Value at Risk Applications to the Global Mining Industry

It is generally accepted that asset returns are not normally distributed, especially during volatile economic circumstances such as those seen during the global financial crisis. Yet portfolio optimisation is often based on lower order moments of mean and standard deviation, which do not take into account the tail of a distribution. The mining industry can be extremely volatile during times of economic downturn. We compare extreme risk in mining share portfolios from each of the world’s seven leading mining areas using Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) which measures those risks beyond traditional Value at Risk (VaR) metrics. We also show how CVaR, as opposed to traditional standard deviation measures, can be used to optimise mining portfolios and minimise extreme risk. We compare CVaR across two different periods and find that relative risk ranking between countries changes as volatility changes. We find significant differences between countries using CVaR as compared to standard deviation risk rankings, as well as differences in portfolios optimised using CVaR compared to portfolios using traditional variance methodology. This indicates that investors will not adequately minimise risk using traditional approaches.
Testing the New Keynesian Phillips Curve: A Frequency Domain Approach

We propose a new test of the forward-looking Phillips curve for a panel of 10 OECD countries. Structural parameter estimates are obtained using an extremum estimation method which is applied in the frequency domain. Such an estimator has the advantage of enabling the econometrician to focus on subsets of frequencies for which the model is specifically designed. For most countries, and once we control for a lagged inflation term, we find that the majority of the price setters are backward looking. In addition, our evidence is compatible with the hypothesis that prices are adjusted according to a fixed, time invariant pricing rule.
Learning in Network Games ∗

We report the findings of experiments designed to study how people learn in network games. Network games offer new opportunities to identify learning rules, since on networks (compared to e.g. random matching) more rules differ in terms of their information requirements. Our experimental design enables us to observe both which actions participants choose and which information they consult before making their choices. We use these data to estimate learning types using finite mixture models. Monitoring information requests turns out to be crucial, as estimates based on choices alone show substantial biases. We also find that learning depends on network position. Participants in more complex environments (with more network neighbours) tend to resort to simpler rules compared to those with only one network neighbour. JEL Classification: C72, C90, C91, D85.
Threshold Effect of the Number of Bank Relationships on the Tunisian Firm Performance

The aim of this paper is to define the optimal number of bank relations and to investigate its impact on the performance of some Tunisian firms. To achieve these goals, we used a sample of 36 Tunisian listed companies over the period 2008-2015 and we performed the Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR) as econometric approach. Empirical results show that the optimal number of bank relationship for Tunisian listed companies is 3.222. Findings indicate that within this optimal number, bank-firm relationships exert a positive and significant effect on the performance of the Tunisian listed companies. For macroeconomic factors, results show that the Growth rate of Gross domestic Product (GDPG) increases significantly the firm performance; however, the effect of inflation is negative but not significant.
Title : Reduction in the amplitude of shortening and Ca 2 + transient by Phlorizin and Quercetin 3O-Glucoside in ventricular myocytes from streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

Title: Reduction in the amplitude of shortening and Ca 2+ transient by Phlorizin and Quercetin 3-O-Glucoside in ventricular myocytes from streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats Norin Nabil Hamouda 1 , Muhammed Anwar Qureshi, Jumaa Musbah Alkaabi 2 , Murat Oz 1 , Frank Christopher Howarth 1 * Departments of Physiology & 1 Pharmacology, 2 Internal Medicine, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE
Validly web-based dietary assessment questionnaire adapt- ed to evaluate eating patterns in American elementary school children

Web-Based Dietary Assessment Questionnaire was developed as a surveillance instrument to measure dietary and physical activity behaviors in children and adolescents. This study was developed to evaluate the validity of food eating pattern from the elementary school version of the Web-Based Dietary Assessment Questionnaire. Validity was assessed by comparing food items selected on the questionnaire with food items reported from a single 24-hour recall covering the same reference period. To Identify and describe the major dietary eating patterns in the WT Cheney Elementary School and South Wood Elementary of the 4 th
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Breach remedies , reliance and renegotiation

Breach penalties can be used to protect specific investments and are therefore a remedy against holdup. Not all breach remedies are, however, equally efficient. Some common types are predicted to protect too well thereby inducing overinvestment. Theoretically overinvestment is driven by two motives: the insurance motive and the separation prevention motive. This paper presents results from an experiment designed to test the effect of different breach remedies on specific investments in a setting where ex post renegotiations are possible. In line with other experimental studies we find that actual investment levels tend to exceed the predicted levels somewhat. Nevertheless the results provide ample support for the theory: investment levels under the different remedies vary in accordance with the theoretical predictions. More specifically, where predicted the insurance motive and the separation prevention motive are indeed at work. JEL codes: K12, J41, C91.
Constraining cosmological parameters by gamma-ray burst X-ray afterglow light curves

We present the Hubble diagram (HD) of 66 Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) derived using only data from their X-ray afterglow lightcurve. To this end, we use the recently updated LX -Ta correlation between the break time Ta and the X-ray luminosity LX measured at Ta calibrated from a sample of Swift GRBs with lightcurves well fitted by the Willingale et al. (2007) model. We then investigate the use of this HD to constrain cosmological parameters when used alone or in combination with other data showing that the use of GRBs leads to constraints in agreement with previous results in literature. We finally argue that a larger sample of high luminosity GRBs can provide a valuable information in the search for the correct cosmological model.