Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Tuber and turion dynamics in monoecious and dioecious hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata)

hydrilla is an invasive, nonindigenous submersed aquatic plant first discovered in the United States in the 1960s (Blackburn et al. 1969, Pieterse 1981). a native of asia, the Pacific islands, and new Zealand (Pieterse 1981, Cook and luond 1982, Madiera et al. 2004), hydrilla exhibits aggressive growth, rapidly expanding to the surface (especially dioecious biotype) and forming a dense canopy. limited light availability beneath the dense canopy results in competitive reduction of native vegetation and lower diversity (Sutton 1990, Barko et al. 1991). additionally, excessive growth of hydrilla may degrade water quality and habitat for fish and other wildlife (Madsen 1997). two distinct biotypes, monoecious and dioecious, exist in the United States (Spencer and anderson 1986); monoecious hydrilla has both male and female flowers on the same plant, while the dioecious biotype produces male and female flowers on separate plants. distribution of both biotypes includes the northern states of Maine, wisconsin, and washington; the Gulf and atlantic coastal states; the western states of arizona, idaho, and California; the midwestern states of tennessee, arkansas (USGS 2010), Oklahoma (Gene Gilliland, Oklahoma department of wildlife Commission, pers. comm.), indiana (lembi 2006), kentucky (http://www.apms.org/apn/oct2008.pdf), kansas (http://www.apms.org/apn/oct2009.pdf), and recently the Ohio River from west Virginia to indiana. Monoecious hydrilla tends to be located in the northern states but has been found in recent years in many tennessee Valley authority (tVa) reservoirs, including lake Guntersville in alabama and nickojack Reservoir in tennessee. dioecious hydrilla has always been considered an invasive plant of the south; however, this perception is changing because it has now been found in idaho and kentucky (Figure 1), suggesting it can endure more northern locations. to better understand differences in the tuber dynamics between monoecious and dioecious hydrilla, an outdoor mesocosm study was conducted in texas to compare differences between two biotypes under similar conditions. By understanding the tuber/turion dynamics of different hydrilla biotypes, implementation of management options may be better applied with more consistent control efficacy (Madsen and Owens 1998). this study examines differences in tuber/ turion dynamics between monoecious and dioecious hydrilla. METHODS
Standard-Essential Patents and the Distribution of Gains from Trade for Innovation

An earlier study finds that standard-essential patents (SEPs) enhance trade and additionally lead to a phenomenon of global cross-licensing, i.e., global value chains (GVCs) arise along those countries in which companies will act as both licensor and licensee of SEPs. This, however, simultaneously leads to the situation that SEP-induced GVCs are a relatively closed-off club of companies that profit from the artificial temporary monopoly awarded by patents and their connection to standards. The paper proposes several paths for future research with the goal to uncover the micro-mechanisms of these findings. The principal questions asked are (1) How can intermediate producers (i.e. global network suppliers for instance in Korea and China) profit from GVCs in which many SEPs are used? (2) How is upgrading (i.e. moving up in the GVC towards performing more elaborated tasks) in an SEP-induced GVC possible? (3) How can a company reach a position that allows it to exert control over a GVC?
The Information Content of Stock Market Flows: Evidence from Thailand

This paper studies the impact of Thai stock market (SET) by examining the return-volume relation and the weekly volatility-volume relation, started 2003–2014. The results show that there is a positive relation in return-volume relation; although, there is a negative relation of volatility-volume. In addition, we differentiate the impact of fund inflow and outflow for each individual groups, including foreign, local and institution investors for finding the relations between fund flow and market return, between fund flow and market volatility. The analysis shows that only foreign investor impacts to stock market in both of trading-return relation and trading-volatility relation. There is a positive relation with market return, but has a negative relation with market volatility. However, it depends on direction of fund flow. Fund inflow has positive relation in market return while outflow has negatively. On the other hand, in part of trading-market volatility, the larger of cash outflow, the more volatility is the market.
Nest density as determinants for habitat utilizations of Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) in degraded forests of Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan

Prasetyo D, Sugardjito J (2011) Nest density as determinants for habitat utilizations of Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) in degraded forests of Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan. Biodiversitas 12: 164-170. Conversion of forests into nonforests areas particularly for the development of timber industry and oil palm plantation in Ketapang district, West Kalimantan province was drastically increased recently. We have conducted an assessment for the density of Bornean orangutans Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii L. in degraded forests of the boundary of Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan in 2004 and 2005. We used line-transects nest-count to survey 39,6 km length at 13 sites including 7 in side the park and the other 6 situated out side the park which holds a difference status of forest management. The differences of nest density between degraded forests habitat was calculated. The olddegraded forest which has been logged for 5 years or more, were containing more new nests in a cluster compared to the recently as well as currently logged. The highest number of orangutanâ€™s nests could be found in the old degraded forest in side the park, whereas the lowest one was obtained in the currently logged protection forest with the density of 3.70 ind/km2 and 0.06 ind/km2 respectively. We compare these results with the survey undertaken previously in the area when the logging and forest conversion activities have just begun in the region in 2001.Key words: degraded forests, nest-count, orangutan density, Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii.
Studies On Some Properties Of Bacteriocins Produced By Lactobacillus Species Isolated From Agro-Based Waste

Lactic acid producing bacteria (LAB) were isolated from vegetable waste. These organisms were studied for bacteriocin production. Among the isolated cultures Lactobacillus lactis and Lactobacillus plantarum were potent producers of bacteriocins. Bacteriocin produced by these Lactobacillus species had a large spectrum of inhibition against food spoilage microorganisms and various related strains of lactic acid bacteria. The bacteriocin inhibited the growth of Escherichia coli but it showed least activity against Candida albicans. The antibacterial activity appeared to be pronounced between late logarithmic phase and early stationary phase. The bacteriocins were found to be heat stable. Supplementation with lactose, peptone and yeast extract enhanced the production of bacteriocin.
Proton‐conducting polymers based on benzimidazoles and sulfonated benzimidazoles

This work was funded by Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CICYT, Spain) (MAT98-0807- C02-02). The authors thank the Ministry of Science and Technology (Spain) for a predoctoral fellowship awarded to J. A. Asensio.
XYZ Meson Spectroscopy

Many candidate multiquark mesons, i.e., mesons with substructures that are more complex than the quark-antiquark prescription that is in the textbooks, have recently been observed. Many of the most recently observed candidate states are electrically charged and have the same spin and parity, namely JP=1+. In this talk I give an overview of the current experimental situation and identify patterns among the recently discovered JP=1+ states, compare these patterns with expectations from proposed theoretical models, and the existence of additional, related states that might be accessible at current and future experiments. In addition, models that attribute the observed states to kinematically induced cusps are discussed.
Gender Convergence in Housework Time: A Life Course and Cohort Perspective

Knowledge about gender convergence in housework time is confined to changes studied across repeated cross-sections of data. This study adds a dynamic view that links broader social shifts in men’s and women’s housework time to individual life-course profiles. Using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (1985–2015), our analysis is the first to trace changes in housework time across the entire adult life course (ages 20–90) and across a large range of cohorts (1920–1990). The results revealed two types of gender convergence in housework time. First, the gender gap converged across the life course, narrowing by more than 50 percent from age 35 until age 70. Life-course profiles of housework time were strongly gendered, as women's housework time peaked in younger adulthood and declined thereafter, whereas men’s housework time remained stably low for decades and increased only in older age. Second, the gender gap converged across cohorts, narrowing by 40 percent from cohorts 1940 until 1960. Cohort profiles of housework time showed strong declines in women and moderate increases in men. Both cohort trends were linear and extended to the most recently born, supporting the notion of continued convergence in housework time.
Clinical significance of promoter hypermethylation of genes in ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer is the most lethal condition in gynecologic oncology. The known prognostic factors for ovarian cancer include tumor stage, histological grade, lymph node, and distant metastasis; however, handy and reliable molecular biomarkers for prevention, diagnosis, personalized treatment, and prognosis are scarce. Despite histological differences, the clinical treatment strategy is similar for ovarian cancers. The survival rate for ovarian cancer, however, remains relatively low. Accumulating evidence suggests that hypermethylated promoters of genes can be promising candidates as molecular biomarkers in ovarian cancer risk evaluation, early detection, personalized treatment, and prognosis. With advancements in immunology, hypermethylation of gene promoters was found to alter the tumor immune microenvironment, and gene methyltransferase inhibitors can contribute to ovarian cancer immunotherapy by boosting tumor immunogenicity and immune response and decreasing immunosuppression. Although DNMTis demonstrate high efficacy in hematologic malignancies, the application of DNMTis in solid tumors is just in its beginning. This article, drawing on both preclinical and clinical data, systematically reviews the common hypermethylated genes in ovarian cancer and their clinical applications, evaluating their usefulness in early diagnosis, personalized treatment, prognosis prediction, and the establishment of combined therapy of methyltransferase inhibitors and immunotherapy. www.impactjournals. com/oncotarget/ Oncotarget, Advance Publications 2017
Radar Waveform Recognition Based on Time-Frequency Analysis and Artificial Bee Colony-Support Vector Machine

In this paper, a system for identifying eight kinds of radar waveforms is explored. The waveforms are the binary phase shift keying (BPSK), Costas codes, linear frequency modulation (LFM) and polyphase codes (including P1, P2, P3, P4 and Frank codes). The features of power spectral density (PSD), moments and cumulants, instantaneous properties and time-frequency analysis are extracted from the waveforms and three new features are proposed. The classifier is support vector machine (SVM), which is optimized by artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm. The system shows well robustness, excellent computational complexity and high recognition rate under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) situation. The simulation results indicate that the overall recognition rate is 92% when SNR is −4 dB.
Application of AdS/CFT in Nuclear Physics

We review some recent progress in studying the nuclear physics especially nucleon-nucleon (NN) force within the gauge-gravity duality, in context of noncritical string theory. Our main focus is on the holographic QCD model based on the AdS6 background. We explain the noncritical holography model and obtain the vector-meson spectrum and pion decay constant. Also, we study the NN interaction in this frame and calculate the nucleonmeson coupling constants. A further topic covered is a toy model for calculating the light nuclei potential. In particular, we calculate the light nuclei binding energies and also excited energies of some available excited states. We compare our results with the results of other nuclear models and also with the experimental data. Moreover, we describe some other issues which are studied using the gauge-gravity duality.
A model of hysteresis arising from social interaction within a firm

This paper subscribes to the view that a key distinguishing feature of a firm is its social nature. We present a model in which hysteresis arises from the social interactions between employees. Employees have a simple response to incentives in the form of the pay available outside the firm relative to that available within the firm. Allowing for social interaction, whereby employees are influenced by the effort levels of fellow employees, leads to the distinctive effects, such as lazy relay responses to incentives, associated with hysteresis.
Solar Grid Parity Dynamics in Italy: A Real Option Approach

Over the past three years Italy has witnessed a rapid growth in the photovoltaic energy market, followed by an equally sudden decline when the government decided to reduce the incentives. This sharp change in the trend of the market calls into question the achievement of Grid Parity and the possibility that the market is able to develop independently. Starting from the standard Grid Parity Model, widely used for the photovoltaic (PV) market, we internalize the uncertainty surrounding both the energy price and PV module costs, to forecast the dynamics of the Italian PV market. We show that these sources of uncertainty can delay the Grid Parity timing of several years compared to current forecasts, well describing the current market situation.
ASSESSMENT OF THE DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY “VITAL SIGNS AND ANATOMY” BY STUDENTS OF VOCATIONAL NURSING EDUCATION

This is a methodological study on the evaluation of the digital educational technology, “Vital Signs and Anatomy”, by students of vocational nursing education as regards the quality of the content, interface, and usability of the system. Twenty-one students enrolled in vocational nursing education, who had already completed 50% of the course, participated in this study. All items were regarded as suitable for more than 90% of the evaluators. Students expressed some suggestions, which were considered for the improvement of this technology. It can be concluded that the developed product is suitable to be made available for use in nursing education, inserted in the pedagogical framework of problematization and meaningful learning stemming from the evaluation of the technology’s main users, the nursing student.
High power impulse magnetron sputtering : Current-voltage-time characteristics indicate the onset of sustained self-sputtering

The commonly used current-voltage characteristics are found inadequate for describing the pulsed nature of the high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS) discharge; rather, the description needs to be expanded to current-voltage-time characteristics for each initial gas pressure. Using different target materials (Cu, Ti, Nb, C, W, Al, and Cr) and a pulsed constant-voltage supply, it is shown that the HIPIMS discharges typically exhibit an initial pressure dependent current peak followed by a second phase that is power and material dependent. This suggests that the initial phase of a HIPIMS discharge pulse is dominated by gas ions, whereas the later phase has a strong contribution from self-sputtering. For some materials, the discharge switches into a mode of sustained self-sputtering. The very large differences between materials cannot be ascribed to the different sputter yields but they indicate that generation and trapping of secondary electrons play a major role for current-voltage-time characteristics. In particular, it is argued that the sustained self-sputtering phase is associated with the generation of multiply charged ions because only they can cause potential emission of secondary electrons, whereas the yield caused by singly charged metal ions is negligibly small.
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Modern Contraceptive Utilization among Married Women in Reproductive Age Group in Misha Woreda Hadiya Zone, South Ethiopia

Background: The continuing growth of the world population has become an urgent global problem. Ethiopia, like most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, is experiencing rapid population growth at a rate of 2.6%. Promotion of family planning in countries with high birth rates has the potential to reduce poverty and hunger and avert 32% of all maternal deaths and nearly 10% of childhood death. Objective: To estimate prevalence and associated factors of modern contraceptive utilization among married women in reproductive age group in Misha Woreda Hadiya Zone, South Ethiopia. Methods: A community based cross-sectional survey was conducted from May to June 2013. Multistage Stratified sampling technique was employed for the study. I interviewed 581 currently married women of reproductive age group (15-49) years. The collected data was entered and analyzed using EPI-INFO version 3.5 and SPSS version 16.0 statistical program. Crude and adjusted odds ratios from bi-variant and multi-variant analyses were used to measure association between modern contraceptive use and independent variables. Results: The prevalence of modern contraceptive method was 23.924% with 95% CI (0.205%,0.273%). Final multiple logistic regression analysis showed that residence [(OR 2.86 with 95% CI (1.13,7.28)], possession of radio [(OR 3.43 with 95% CI (2.07,5.68)], income [(OR 5.00 with 95% CI (2.11,11.85)], knowledge [(OR 4.92 with 95% CI (3.05,7.93)] and communication with their partners [OR 3.3 with 95% CI (1.36,9.66)] were found significantly associated with utilization of family planning methods. Conclusion: The utilization of modern contraceptive method was low. Contraceptive utilization was associated with some socio-economic, socio-demographic and socio-psychological factors like age, residence, family monthly income, knowledge and spousal communication. It is also associated with different sources of information. Recommendation: One to five health development armies should be strengthen by Woreda health office, health facilities and health posts to improve modern contraceptive use to achieve Millennium development goals.
Real-time hybrid facility for the study of distributed power generation systems

The presence of renewable energies on the distribution grid is continuously evolving, influencing more considerably the overall comportment of the power system. The intermittent character of the primal energy (wind, sun, water) increases the complexity of the problem, thus new test facilities must be developed. As power electronics are generally part of these production systems, high frequencies are involved so the test facilities must be well adapted. The present paper proposes the Real-Time (RT) Hybrid Simulator as a very flexible test facility, well suited for the study of grid connected electrical devices.
Charm Physics at CDF

The study of the charm quark continues to have wide interest as a possible avenue for the discovery of physics beyond the Standard Model and can as well be used as a tool for understanding the non-perturbative aspects of the strong interactions. Owning to the large production cross-section available at the Tevatron collider and to the flexibility of a trigger on fully hadronic final states, the CDF experiment, in a decade of successful operations, collected millions of charmed mesons decays which can be used to investigate the details of the physics of the production and decay processes of the charm quark. Here we present a brief collection of new CDF results on this subject.
Vegetative and Reproductive Parameters of ' Selva ' Strawberry as Influenced by Algaren , Drin and Green Hum Foliar Application

In order to evaluate the effects of foliar application of seaweed extracts including Algaren, Drin and Humic acid on vegetative and reproductive growth of strawberry cv. Selva the present study was carried out in a completely randomized block design. Well-rooted daughter strawberry plants were potted in 5 liter plastic pots filled with Perlite and Cocopeat (1:1 v/v), and were grown hyroponically in greenhouse. When plants well established, they were sprayed with Algaren at 0, 3, 6 and 9 g l-1, Drin at 0, 0.5, 1 and 2 g l-1 and green hum at 0, 1.5, 3 and 4.5 g l-1 concentration. Results indicated that 3 g l-1 of green hum significantly increased leaf area, primary fruit weight, dry weights of shoot and root and yield. Algaren at 6 g l-1 concentration produced the highest chlorophyll content. The lowest percentage of malformed fruit production and the highest vitamin C concentration were obtained when plants treated with 0.5 g l-1 of Drin. Generally it can be concluded that green hum and seaweeds extracts are capable of influencing vegetative and reproductive growth of strawberry cv. Selva in a promoting and beneficial way but for elucidating the details of this impact more studies are required.
Potential phosphorus leaching from sandy topsoils with different fertilizer histories before and after application of pig slurry

This study investigated the effects of historical long‐term and recent single applications of pig slurry on phosphorus (P) leaching from intact columns of two sandy topsoils (Mellby and Böslid). The soils had similar physical properties, but different soil P status (ammonium lactate‐extractable P; P‐AL) and degree of P saturation (DPS‐AL). Mellby had P‐AL of 220–280 mg/kg and DPS‐AL of 32–42%, which was higher than for Böslid (P‐AL 140 mg/kg and DPS 21%). The study investigated the effects since 1983 of four treatments with different fertilizer histories, in summary high (HighSlurryMellby) and low (LowSlurryMellby) rates of pig slurry and mineral P (MinMellby) applications at Mellby and mineral P application at Böslid (MinBöslid). The columns were irrigated in the laboratory five times before and five times after a single application of pig slurry (22 kg P/ha). Concentrations of dissolved reactive P (DRP), dissolved organic P and total‐P (TP) in leachate and loads were significantly higher (P < 0.005) from the treatments at Mellby than those at Böslid. TP concentrations followed the trend: HighSlurryMellby (0.57–0.59 mg/L) > MinMellby (0.41–0.49 mg/L) > LowSlurryMellby (0.31–0.36 mg/L) > MinBöslid (0.14–0.15 mg/L), both before and after the single slurry application. DRP concentrations in leachate were positively correlated with DPS‐AL values in the topsoil (R2 = 0.95, P < 0.0001) and increased with greater DPS‐AL values after the single slurry application (R2 = 0.79, P < 0.0001). Thus, DPS‐AL can be an appropriate indicator of P leaching risk from sandy soils. Moreover, the build‐up of soil P because of long‐term repeated manure applications seems to be more important for potential P losses than a single manure application.