Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Proximate Composition, Available Carbohydrates, Dietary Fibre and Anti Nutritional Factors of Selected Traditional Medicinal Plants

Abstract Three traditional medicinal plants known for their hypoglycemic action namely bittergourd, fenugreek seeds and jambu seeds were analysed for proximate composition, available carbohydrates, dietary fibres and antinutritional factors. Protein, fat, ash, crude fibre, carbohydrate and energy content of these medicinal plants ranged from 4.16 to 25.80, 0.49 to 6.53, 2.16 to 9.89, 1.28 to 10.92,58.13 to 90.85 percent and 319.11 to 394.46 kcal respectively. Total soluble sugars, reducing sugars, nonreducing sugars and starch content varied from 2.03 to 11.76, 0.78 to 4.43, 1.03 to 8.0 and 29.20 percent respectively. Dietary fibre constituents like NDF, ADF, hemicellulose, cellulose, lignin, pectin, total dietary fibre varied from 21.90 to 39.66, 2.35 to 13.46, 8.44 to 34.75, 1.46 to 8.23, 0.38 to 5.18, 0.36 to 2.95, 22.4 to 40.38 percent respectively. Phytic acid, phytin phosphorus, polyphenol and saponin content of these three medicinal plants varied from 12.90 to 549, 3.63 to 154.7, 103.8 to 361.40, 214.53 to 1646.58 percent respectively. It was found that these plants are good source of protein, fat, minerals, crude fibre and energy. They are rich source of available carbohydrates and dietary fibre. They also contain anti-nutrient content which help in controlling blood sugar. Thus, it was concluded that these hypoglycemic traditional medicinal plants provide various nutrients which are not provided by allopathic medicine and these plants have no side effects. So, the diabetic patients should be encouraged to include these medicinal plants in their daily diet to control blood sugar level.
CAMA Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis Structural VARs , Deterministic and Stochastic Trends : Does Detrending Matter ? CAMA Working Paper 46 / 2014 June 2014

We highlight how detrending within Structural Vector Autoregressions (SVAR) is directly linked to the shock identification. Consequences of trend misspecification are investigated using a prototypical Real Business Cycle model as the Data Generating Process. Decomposing the different sources of biases in the estimated impulse response functions, we find the biases arising directly from trend misspecification are not trivial when compared to other widely studied misspecifications. Our example also illustrates how misspecifying the trend can also distort impulse response functions of even the correctly detrended variable within the SVAR system. T H E A U S T R A L I A N N A T I O N A L U N I V E R S I T Y
A Moderating Role of Board Characteristics on Enterprise Risk Management Implementation: Evidence from the Nigerian Banking Sector

The objective of this study is to examine the extent of ERM implementation in the Nigerian banking sector and also evaluated the moderating role of board characteristics on the antecedents and the stage of ERM implementation. The study used a survey approach to collect cross-sectional data across 361branches and the headquarters of the 21 Nigerian commercial banks using 722 respondents. The finding revealed that there is an ERM complete in place in the majority of the banks. Furthermore, the finding showed that internal audit effectiveness, human resource competency and top management commitment effect significant influence on the stage of ERM implementation, and there is also a moderating effect of board characteristics on internal audit effectiveness and the stage of ERM implementation. The paper has a policy implication for the board of directors to improve their oversight functions and the regulatory authorities to entrench risk-based supervision in all the Nigerian banks. Keywords: board characteristics; enterprise risk management; Nigerian banks; shareholder value. JEL Classifications : M41, M48
Impact of Advanced Technology Use on Firm Performance in the Canadian Food Processing Sector

This chapter investigates the evolution of industrial structure in the Canadian food processing sector and its relationship to technological change. It uses a dataset combining advanced technology use that is derived from a 1998 special survey on advanced technology use in the food sector that is linked to data on firm performance derived from administrative records covering the period 1988-1997. The chapter first examines the characteristics of firms (size, nationality, emphasis given to training, innovativeness) that adopt advanced technologies and then how the use of these technologies is related to plant performance (growth in productivity and market share). Plants that adopted more advanced technologies enjoyed superior productivity growth. Process control and network communications technologies are particularly important to productivity growth in the foodprocessing sector. Those plants that increased their relative productivity growth and used more advanced technologies saw their market share increase.
Current employment patterns in the labor market of the Eurasian Economic Union

The classical employment rate formula empirically determined for a certain labor market makes it possible to identify changes in the level of employment. However, this approach does not allow modeling an explicit form of employment functions within integration associations. But if we supplement this classical formula with a proportionality coefficient and the variables of entry and exit of labor migrants, the employment function in the labor market of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) will allow modeling flows. The labor supply in the labor market of the EAEU is considerably declining. The growth of the working-age population in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan does not compensate for the overall decline. There has been a constant decline in employment in agriculture and industry in the EAEU employment structure. Moreover, there is a discrepancy between the rhetoric and the reality of implementation of the employment principles in the member countries of the EAEU. Functional, structural and fundamental representation of employment parameters in the EAEU shows a low degree of flexibility in the labor market, low competition and the presence of disproportions in the employment of women and youth.
A HYBRID-REDUCED PHYSICS MODELLING APPROACH APPLIED TO THE DEBEN ESTUARY, UK

Accurate prediction of medium- and long-term morphological changes in estuaries remains very challenging. Approaches to predicting the morphological evolution of estuaries generally follow one of two types: Process based modelling and system behaviour modelling. Even though with the latter models, the underlying physical processes may not be fully explained, they provide good qualitative results. This has encouraged the development of hybrid models with simplified dynamics that are designed to predict estuary morphodynamic change by including only predominant processes. Here, we apply a new hybrid model to the Deben Estuary in the UK, which is a hybrid between process-based and behaviour-oriented approaches. The success of the analysis depends on the availability and precision of the historic data. Yearly scale changes of the Deben source terms are well predicted. Further analysis of source function is necessary for longer term predictions.
Effects of Storage Duration and Temperature on the Values of Haematological Parameters in Bovine and Ovine Blood Samples

The purpose of the present study was to determine the alterations in haematological values at 0, 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, 84 and 96 hours of storage in bovine and ovine venous blood samples stored at 4 ̊C and 24 ̊C in EDTA-coated tubes. Twenty healthy animals, including ten 4-year-old cattle and ten 2-year-old sheep constituted the
Developing molecular tools to assess the biogeochemical/microbial community structure of oil sand processed waste material

v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi LIST OF TABLES ix LIST OF FIGURES x LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xi Chapter 1Introduction 1 1.1 Alberta oil sands 1 1.2 Oil sands tailings and reclamation 1 1.3 Wetlands ecosystem and sediment oxygen demand 2 1.4 Role of microorganisms in wetlands 3 1.5 Study of active microbial population 3 1.6 Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) 5 1.7 Laboratory microcosm studies 5 CHAPTER 2 Assessment of RNA preservation methods to study active microbial population in oil sands tailings ponds 12 2.
Projective planes with a transitive automorphism group

In this note we prove two theorems which contribute towards the classification of line-transitive designs. A special class of such designs are the projective planes and it is this problem which the paper addresses. There two main results:Theorem A: Let G act line-transitively on a projective plane P and let M be a minimal normal subgroup of G. Then M is either abelian or simple or the order of the plane is 3, 9, 16 or 25. Theorem B: Let G be a classical simple group which acts line-transitively on a projective plane. Then the rank of G is bounded.
Exploring motivations to engage in collaborative consumption: Case: Facebook recycling group

In recent years, there has been a significant change in how people consume. New collaborative business models emerge and flourish all around the world. Their success is due to many simultaneous changes in the society. For example, people have become increasingly sensitive to issues related to scarce natural resources. The global financial and economic crisis has encouraged individuals to seek alternative ways to consume. And most importantly, major technological advances have enabled the omnipresence of the Internet and related technologies in our everyday lives. Collaborative consumption is no longer a hype; it has grown to become a global phenomenon with an extremely fast growth rate. According to experts, economies are shifting further towards collaborative models. Yet, there is a discrepancy between research and the real world phenomenon. Therefore, this thesis addresses this gap in the academic discussion. This master’s thesis describes and offers further insights to understanding collaborative consumption and more specifically its second dimension, the subcategory of peer-to-peer redistribution markets. Major theoretical contributions include the introduction of a new scale to measure the liquid relationship to possessions. In addition, the thesis brings the research of collaborative consumption to a new context in Finland. The study answers the research questions ‘What kind of motivations do people have to participate in collaborative consumption in online sharing and recycling communities? ’ and ‘What kind of different participant groups can be identified among the users of these online communities? ’. Motivational factors were identified from existing literature and in March 2015 data was collected through a survey among the users of Facebook sharing and recycling groups in Helsinki (n=442). Quantitative methods such as factor and cluster analysis were used to process the data. The results indicate that four distinctive user groups can be identified; Accumulators, Utility seekers, Enthusiasts and Materialists. All of the groups emphasize the identified ten motivational factors differently and in various combinations. This research both confirms and challenges some of the findings of previous literature. For example, the fact that all four user groups scored high on green consumer values, while none of them were found to emphasize green consumer values as a primary motivation to participate, offers support for previous findings. The findings of the thesis result in significant managerial implications for both commercial and non-commercial actors, operating both in Facebook and on other platforms. Understanding the various motivations of the consumers helps the actors to better target their offering. The thesis also provides many research suggestions to further explore this highly current and interesting topic.
Frontiers in sensors and sensing systems

Recent technological advancements in materials science, micro fabrication of MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), and bioengineered systems have made the dream of inexpensive, powerful, ubiquitous sensing a readily achievable reality. Examples range from truly smart airframes and self-evaluating buildings and infrastructure for natural hazard mitigation to large-scale weather forecasting and selforganizing energy systems. A common thread running through these, and all other applications of ubiquitous sensing, is the vast amounts of data generated, and a need to have the ubiquitous sensor networks process this data in order to return decisions and information. Sensor networks become a dynamic organism far more powerful and user-friendly than the traditional view of a sensor as a widget, an individual component that needs to be deployed, programmed, and interrogated. Therefore, the convergence of sensor technologies, communications, and computing has the potential to overcome barriers of time, scale, materials and environment. The National Workshop on Future Sensing Systems was held in Lake Tahoe, California, August 26-28, 2002, sponsored by the Sensors Technology Program of the NSF Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems (CMS), with co-sponsorship from DARPA, NIH, DOE, NIST, NASA, AFOSR, ONR, ARO, ARL, and NRL. The scope of this workshop encompassed discussions of research needs, current and emerging technologies, and efficacious partnerships required to develop and implement future sensing systems. The workshop was planned to stimulate synergistic ideas and directions generated by industrial, scientific and government participants, and to start planning a long-term road
Combining the best of Two Standard Setting Methods: the Ordered Item Booklet Angoff

This article describes a hybrid standard setting method that combines characteristics of the Angoff (1971) and Bookmark (Mitzel, Lewis, Patz&Green, 2001) methods. The proposed approach utilizes strengths of each method while addressing weaknesses. An ordered item booklet, with items sorted based on item difficulty, is used in combination with individual item ratings rather than a bookmark placement. The ordered item booklet attempts to make individual item ratings more palatable by providing some amount of information about item difficulty to the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) participating in the standard setting. Allowing for individual item ratings attempts to addresses the issue of SMEs disagreeing with the order of items in the booklet in a Bookmark standard setting. This article illustrates the method as it was applied to a healthcare examination used for state licensure, comparing it with a more traditional Angoff approach. Results suggest that the proposed method has promise for future use pending further exploration.
Effects of cage stocking density on egg quality traits in Japanese quails.

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of different stocking densities on external and internal egg quality traits and to measure the phenotypic correlation coefficients between external and internal egg quality traits. Two hundred and sixteen birds of Japanese quail at 14th week of age were used in this experiment. The birds were divided randomly into three groups, 60, 72 and 84. Each group subdivided into 4 replicates, where the cages floor spaces were 200, 167 and 143 cm2/bird; respectively. The obtained results revealed that birds housed at 200 cm2/bird laid heavier egg weight (12.24 g), with significant (P<0.05) higher external quality traits, including shell weight (1.27 g), eggshell ratio (10.55%), shell thickness (0.23 mm) and egg shell density (48.70 mg/cm2). Similarly, internal quality traits, including yolk height (10.72 mm), albumen height (5.67 mm), yolk diameter (24.97 mm), yolk index (43.49%) and Haugh unit (92.77). Shell weight positively correlated with yolk height (P<0.01), albumen height (P<0.01), albumen weight (P<0.05) and haugh unit (P<0.01). It was concluded that, housing Japanese quail at low cage floor space associated with depression in external and internal egg quality traits. Moreover there is an economical hazard of housing quails at cage floor space lower than 200 cm2/bird.
Conversational Writing: A Multidimensional Study of Synchronous and Supersynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication

This study is a linguistic investigation of two genres of computer-mediated communication (CMC), namely two modes of conversational writing: ‘Internet relay chat’ (synchronous CMC) and ‘split-window ICQ chat’ (supersynchronous CMC). The study employs Douglas Biber’s multifeature multidimensional methodology, taking into account the six dimensions of textual variation in English identified in his 1988 book Variation across speech and writing (i.e. Informational vs. Involved Production, Narrative vs. Non-Narrative Concerns, Explicit/Elaborated vs. Situation-Dependent Reference, etc.). The procedure of positioning the two CMC genres on Biber’s (1988) dimensions enables the systematic lexico-grammatical description of the genres relative to other genres of writing and speech. Out of Biber’s 67 linguistic features, the study identifies first and second person pronouns, direct WH-questions, analytic negation, demonstrative and indefinite pronouns, present tense verbs, predicative adjectives, contractions and prepositional phrases as the most salient features in the chats (prepositional phrases are conspicuous by their relative rarity). Although none of Biber’s (1988) dimensions constitutes a dichotomous distinction between writing and speech, they all differentiate among literate and oral genres in various respects. Among the genres studied by Biber are face-to-face and telephone conversations. By relating the CMC genres to the oral conversational genres on the dimensions, it is possible to assess the degree of orality in computer-mediated conversational writing, another undertaking of the study. The results support previous assumptions that synchronously mediated texts display more speech-like properties than asynchronous texts, but lend little support to an initial hypothesis that supersynchronously mediated conversational writing texts should be more speech-like than synchronously mediated ones.The study further employs M. A. K. Halliday’s model of semiotics, among other things to explain differences in the outcome of subtly divergent communicative settings, and argues for the inclusion of Halliday’s measure of lexical density in studies of linguistic variation involving conversational writing.Finally, two features not included in Biber’s (1988) methodology are found to be particularly indicative of conversational writing texts: inserts, specified in Biber et al.’s (1999) Longman grammar of spoken and written English, and emotives, a feature introduced in the study. Emotives comprise emoticons and sentiment initialisms.
Experimental Determination Of The Ratio Of Vapor Diffusion To The Total Water Movement In Wood During Drying

The knowledge of the ratio ϵ of vapor diffusion to the total water movement in wood during drying is necessary when phase change is considered in the heat transfer equation of a wood-drying model based on water potential. An original experimental method was developed to determine the ratio ϵ. The method is based on the measurement of temperature and moisture content profiles in wood during drying and the calculation of total enthalpy profiles. ϵ was determined from drying experiments of red pine sapwood ( Pinus resinosa Ait.) in the radial direction at 18, 56, and 85°C. The experimental results show that ϵ increases from 0.15 to 0.5 as moisture content decreases from values close to saturation (160%) to about 15%. ϵ reaches a plateau at about 0.33 for intermediate moisture contents (35 to 120%).
Impact of alloimmunization on transfusion-dependent patients

Red blood cell (RBC) alloimmunization can be a life-threatening complication for patients with thalassemia major and sickle cell disease (SCD) who must receive chronic therapeutic transfusions. Chronic transfusions can lead to erythrocyte alloimmunization, patients continue to develop alloantibodies due to the transference of the immunogenic antigens on the donor RBCs. Many complications are possible. Diffi culty in fi nding compatible match units for the patients can cause transfusion delays delayed, or present alternative risks to the patients from delayed hemolytic transfusion reactions. This review discusses the possible mechanisms, risk factors associated with alloimmunization formation and the hemolytic transfusion reactions and also describe the guideline for transfusion management of these patients, including opportunities and emerging approaches for minimizing this life-threatening complication. Review Article Impact of alloimmunization on transfusion-dependent patients Surapon Tangvarasittichai* Chronic Diseases Research Unit, Department of Medical Technology, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok 65000, Thailand *Address for Correspondence: Dr. Surapon Tangvarasittichai, Chronic Diseases Research Unit, Department of Medical Technology, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok 65000, Thailand, Tel: +66055966276; Fax: +6655966300; Email: surapon14t@yahoo.com Submitted: 02 November 2017 Approved: 14 November 2017 Published: 16 November 2017 Copyright: 2017 Tangvarasittichai S. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
GROUPS ACTING ACYLINDRICALLY ON HYPERBOLIC SPACES

The goal of this article is to survey some recent developments in the study of groups acting on hyperbolic spaces. We focus on the class of acylindrically hyperbolic groups; it is broad enough to include many examples of interest, yet a significant part of the theory of hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic groups can be generalized in this context. In particular, we discuss group theoretic Dehn filling and small cancellation theory in acylindrically hyperbolic groups. Many results discussed here rely on the new generalization of relative hyperbolicity based on the notion of a hyperbolically embedded subgroup.
Anatomical characteristics of Nigerian variants of Caladium bicolor (Aiton) Vent. (Araceae)

Four Caladium bicolor variants collected from different parts of Nigeria were subjected to anatomical comparison to enhance the taxonomic status of the species. Fresh samples (leaf and petiole) of these variants were fixed in formalin, acetic acid and alcohol (FAA), dehydrated in alcohol series, peeled or sectioned. Peeled specimens were stained with safranin, while sectioned ones were stained with Alcian blue and counterstained with safranin. Good preparations were mounted on slides, viewed and photographed with Optika B-1000 FL LED microscope. Epidermal cells from the variants are mainly pentagonal-hexagonal but rarely heptagonal while the anticlinal cell walls are mainly straight and partly arced/curved. Variants A, B and D are amphistomatic while variant C is hypostomatic. Isotricytic, anisocytic, tetracytic, anomocytic and contiguous stomata were observed among the taxa. The stomata index (SI) varied from 4.35 to 11.76 on the adaxial surface, and from 6.25 to 47.62 on the abaxial surface. Calcium oxalate crystals (druses, 8.18 to 19.09 µm and raphides, 21.82 to 68.18 µm) occur in all variants. Raphides are predominantly found in the petiole while druses and raphides are found in the midrib and petiole. The shapes of the adaxial surface of the midrib are relatively different from each other, and include curved (convex) and flat surfaces. The leaf lamina comprised one layer of palisade and spongy mesophylls each. The number of vascular bundles varied from 11 to 23 in the midrib. These characters can be used to distinguish these taxa especially when combined with the existing data on the species. The similarities among these variants point towards the same evolutionary origin; however may suggest that intraspecific or interspecific hybridizations may have produced the variants. Key words: Amphistomatic, Caladium, druses, hypostomatic, midrib, petiole, raphides.