Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Salicylic Acid on Net Photosynthetic Rate , Chlorophyll Fluorescence , and Antioxidant Enzymes in Vigna radiata Plants Exposed to Temperature and Salinity Stresses

Ten-days-old seedlings of mung bean (Vigna radiata cv. ‘T-44’) were exposed to salicylic acid (SA) and/or temperature and/or NaCl stresses. The treated seedlings were sampled at 18 days after sowing (DAS) to assess the change in growth pattern, photosynthetic attributes, quantum yield of PSII (Fv/Fm), activity of antioxidative enzymes i.e. peroxidase (POX), catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione reductase (GR) and the activity of nitrate reductase and carbonic anhydrase. The plants exposed to temperature and/or saline stress exhibited a reduction in growth, photosynthesis, and the activity of nitrate reductase and carbonic anhydrase. However, treatment with SA both in the presence or absence of stresses significantly improved the values for the above mentioned parameters. Moreover, the activities of antioxidative enzymes and proline content increased in response to both SA and the stress(s). The interaction of salinity and temperature stress with SA treatment had an additive effect enhancing significantly the values by 107.3% (POX), 37.2% (CAT), 37.5% (SOD), 55.3% (GR) and 65.3% (proline content) over control. SA treatment significantly affected the membrane stability index (MSI) under stressed as well as unstressed conditions resulting in a significant enhancement, 27% more than the MSI of plants exposed to a combined temperature and salinity stress. It may therefore be concluded that SA plays an important role in signaling pathways of plants leading to resistance against temperature and/or salinity stresses. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Interannual variability in seasonal dynamics and species composition of drifting young-ofthe-year fishes in two European lowland rivers

Most young-of-the-year (YOY) fishes in two lowland rivers in the Czech Republic (Danube Basin) drifted from mid-May to mid-July and almost exclusively at night. The peak of drift density lasted c. 3 weeks and depended on water temperature (by its effect on fish spawning), but not on discharge. Peak drift densities varied between years and rivers from 80 to 1354 fish 1000 m . More than 98% of drifting fish were cyprinids. Rutilus rutilus, Rhodeus sericeus, Gobio spp. , Alburnus alburnus and Abramis brama were dominate in the 22 species encountered in the River Morava. Carassius auratus gibelio and R. sericeus were the most common of 17 species in the River Kyjovka. Species composition of drifting fishes was similar among years in the Morava but varied in the Kyjovka. The species composition of drifting fishes did not differ from those of the YOY fish assemblage in nursery areas during the drift season. Relative abundances in nursery areas decreased after the drift season in species that dominated in the drift, but increased in those that avoided drift. It is suggested that drift is a regular part of the life history of many cyprinid fishes and interannual variability in density and species composition of drifting YOY fish can be explained by variable spawning success among years. Differences in the relative abundances of the YOY fish assemblage in nurseries during and after the drift season suggests that drift may cause significant mortality.
Corruption information and vote share : A meta-analysis and lessons for survey experiments ∗

Do voters hold politicians accountable for corruption? Field experiments that provide voters with information about corrupt acts of politicians then monitor vote choice are now standard. Similarly, vote-choice survey experiments commonly inform respondents of corrupt acts of hypothetical candidates. What have we learned from these experiments? Meta-analysis demonstrates that the aggregate treatment effect of corruption information on vote share in field experiments is approximately zero. By contrast, corrupt candidates are punished by approximately 33-35 percentage points across survey experiments. This suggests that while vote-choice survey experiments may identify the effect of informational treatments in hypothetical scenarios, the point estimates they provide may not be representative of real-world voting behavior. I explore publication bias, social desirability bias, and the nature of the experimental designs as potential explanations for this discrepancy. Finally, I offer suggestions for analyzing vote-choice conjoint experiments when researchers have strong theories about the conditions that shape voter decision-making. DRAFT: Additional studies may be added or point estimates refined. Please do not cite without author’s permission. ∗ †PhD Student in the Department of Political Science, Yale University. trevor.incerti@yale.edu
OF THE WHITE MARLIN ( TETRAPTURUS ALBIDUS ) CARRIED OUT ON BOARD THE SPANISH SURFACE LONGLINE FLEET TARGETING SWORDFISH FROM 1993-2010

A total of 3,468 sets were observed on board of the Spanish surface longline fleet in the Atlantic Ocean from 1993-2010. At least one specimen of white marlin was captured in 18.9% of the sets (positive sets). A total of 1385 individuals were identified, 822 of which were sexed. The overall prevalence of white marlin in relation to the total number of istiophorids was estimated to be 12.85%. The size data are described for each year and years combined. The sizes ranged between 130-280 cm LJFL and 95-285 cm LJFL, for females and males respectively. The few observable differences in size distribution between zones and sexes suggest that the selection of this fishing gear is restricted to a relatively characteristic size interval. A value of 42.5% for the overall proportion of females (SRo) was obtained in the 17 zones defined, as a whole, with values ranging between 29.2% and 56.8% for the zones exhibiting representative sampling sizes. Some of the zones have shown low prevalence of females. The values for sex ratio at size (SRs) have suggested an increase in the % of females as size particularly in the 145-200 cm size range. Nominal CPUE data by zone, sex and size range were collected as well. The highest values were found in LJFL intervals of 120-165 cm and 170-200 cm. During the whole period analyzed 11.13% of the white marlin specimens observed were discarded, 5.61% were tagged and released, and 1.15% were released alive and 0.94% suffered attacks from sharks and/or the false killer whale.
Non-malleable Zero-Knowledge Arguments with Lower Round Complexity

Round complexity is one of the fundamental problems in zero-knowledge (ZK) proof systems. Non-malleable zero-knowledge (NMZK) protocols are ZK protocols that provide security even when man-in-the-middle adversaries interact with a prover and a verifier simultaneously. It is known that the first constant-round public-coin NMZK arguments for NP can be constructed by assuming the existence of collision-resistant hash functions (Pass, R. and Rosen, A. (2005) New and Improved Constructions of Non-Malleable Cryptographic Protocols. In Gabow, H.N. and Fagin, R. (eds) Proc. 37th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, Baltimore, MD, USA, May 2224, 2005, pp. 533542. ACM) and has relatively high round complexity; the first four-round private-coin NMZK arguments for NP can be constructed in the plain model by assuming the existence of one-way functions (Goyal, V., Richelson, S., Rosen, A. and Vald, M. (2014) An Algebraic Approach to Non-Malleability. In 55th IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2014, Philadelphia, PA, USA, October 1821, 2014, pp. 4150. IEEE Computer Society and Ciampi, M. , Ostrovsky, R. , Siniscalchi, L. and Visconti, I. (2017) Delayed-Input Non-Malleable Zero Knowledge and Multi-Party Coin Tossing in Four Rounds. In Kalai, Y. and Reyzin, L. (eds) Theory of Cryptography15th Int. Conf. , TCC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Baltimore, MD, USA, November 1215, 2017, Part I, Vol. 10677, pp. 711742. Springer). In this paper, we present a six-round public-coin NMZK argument of knowledge system assuming the existence of collision-resistant hash functions and a three-round private-coin NMZK argument system from multi-collision resistance of hash functions assumption in the keyless setting.
AUTOMATIC QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF VIDEO FLUIDITY IMPAIRMENTS USING A NO-REFERENCE METRIC

Apparent motion discontinuities, caused by image dropping, are a common temporal degradation in real time applications over Internet. The end-user perceives a fluidity break of visual information having an impact on his quality assessment of the delivered sequence. We present a new metric to detect and evaluate the impact of image dropping on user quality perception. The measure is based on picture dropping detection, perceptual thresholding, a novel psychovisual quality function and a temporal summation function (temporal pooling) modeling the assessment mechanism of the human assessors. This new assessment model integrates the abrupt temporal variation, occurring at the end of fluidity impairment, as a second factor for quality estimation. The metric predictions show a high correlation with the observer’s ratings under several fluidity break conditions: isolated, regular an irregular, sporadic of different discontinuity durations, distributions and densities.
AGRONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND YIELD OF DOUBLED HAPLOID RICE LINES IN ADVANCED YIELD TRIAL

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Bogor Agricultural University, Jalan Meranti, Darmaga, Bogor, Indonesia Indonesian Center for Agric. Biotech. & Genetic Resources Research and Development, Jalan Tentara Pelajar, Bogor, Indonesia *Corresponding author’s email: bspurwoko@apps.ipb.ac.id Email addresses of coauthors: akhmad_hidayatullah89@yahoo.com, iswari.dewi01@gmail.com, iswarisaraswati@pertanian.go. id, willy@ipb.ac.id
COCAINE EFFECTS ON PERFORMANCE

This paper presents some results of a study by the Southern California Research Institute of the effects of cocaine on psychological performance. 20 healthy men, aged 21 to 40, who were moderate cocaine users, were subjects in an acute dose study. At two test sessions a week apart, they received a 5mg dose ('placebo' condition) and a 96mg dose (active condition) in counterbalanced treatment order. At an initial non-test session, they took a 96mg dose, and provided blood samples 10min, 40min and 70min later. In each of the sessions, a one- hour test battery was administered twice, 15min and 3hr after the dose. The battery included tests of divided attention (DA), visual backward masking (VBM) and vigilance (VIG), and a digit symbol test (DST). Subjects completed the Profile of Mood States 85min and 250min after receiving a dose. Subjects were found to be more alert and attentive with 96mg of cocaine than with 5mg, and there was more benefit three hours after dosing. These findings do not clarify how cocaine influences driving or other complex performance. Therefore, additional studies are in progress, with higher doses, different dosing regimes, and different tasks. For the covering abstract see IRRD 866577.
Contraceptivos orais e câncer de mama: estudo de casos e controles* Oral contraceptive and breast cancer: a case- control study

Abstract ObjectiveTo investigate the association between breast cancer and the duration of use of oralcontraceptives (OC), and age it started to be used in a population of Pelotas, SouthernBrazil.MethodsThere were identified 250 incident cases of breast cancer in patients aged 20 to 60years from records of pathology laboratories and there were enrolled 1,020 controlsdrawn from hospital and neighbourhood population. For 90 cases identified inPelotas, 270 hospital controls and 270 neighbourhood controls were selected, for Descritores Neoplasias mam arias, epidemiologia. # Anticoncepcionais orais, efeitosadversos. # Estudo de casos econtroles. *Trabalho realizado junto ao Departamento de Medicina Social da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal dePelotas. **Aluno de pos-graduacao em Epidemiologia da Faculdade de Medicina da UFPel.Recebido em 24/11/1998. Reapresentado em 2/6/2000. Aprovado em 20/10/2000. Keywords Breast neoplasms, epidemiology. # Contraceptives oral, adverse effects.
Trajectory and wake differences between disks and square plates

The free fall motion of a thin disk with small dimensionless moment of inertia was investigated experimentally and compared with the motion of a thin square plate. Both thin particles share the same frontal area but have a significant difference in the dimensionless moment of inertia, being I∗ ≈ 5 · 10−3 for the disk and I∗ ≈ 1.7 · 10−3 for the square plate. The disk trajectory is characterised by a quasi-2D oscillatory motion, while the square plate trajectory shows severe 3D motion. The wake characteristics of these particles is investigated by means of three-dimensional measurements of the instantaneous velocity field (V3V). The wake behind free falling disks is shown to be as a succession of hairpin vortices shed off at every turning point linked by means of a pair of counter rotating vortices that grow from the leading edge of the disk. Contrary, the wake behind square plates appears to be more uniform with no vortical structure shed off from the main turbulent wash.
Horn Fragments of the Halpern-Shoham Interval Temporal Logic

We investigate the satisfiability problem for Horn fragments of the Halpern-Shoham interval temporal logic depending on the type (box or diamond) of the interval modal operators, the type of the underlying linear order (discrete or dense), and the type of semantics for the interval relations (reflexive or irreflexive). For example, we show that satisfiability of Horn formulas with diamonds is undecidable for any type of linear orders and semantics. On the contrary, satisfiability of Horn formulas with boxes is tractable over both discrete and dense orders under the reflexive semantics and over dense orders under the irreflexive semantics, but becomes undecidable over discrete orders under the irreflexive semantics. Satisfiability of binary Horn formulas with both boxes and diamonds is always undecidable under the irreflexive semantics.
Histopathological Changes of Vocal Cord Polyps Induced by Smoking

Background: Histopathological changes of the respiratory epithelium in response to cigarette smoking have been studied in depth in the lungs and oral cavity, but in the Vocal Cord Polyps (VCP). The aim of this study was to investigate the histological changes that occur in the VCP of smokers compared with non-smokers. Patients: The files of patients who underwent VC polypectomy during 1/2013 to 12/2017 were review. Polyp’s tissue samples were collected and examined. Goblet cells were counted, the inflammation degree, congestion, and edema was graded as mild, moderate, or severe. Epithelial thickness was measured as well. Findings were compared between smokers and non-smokers. Results: A 73 patients underwent VCP resection during the study period. Exclusion criteria included: carcinoma in situ, post-radiotherapy, incomplete data, and lack of follow up. The 66 patients (70 polyps to 4 bilateral) were included. Mean age was 48 years. On statistical analysis, Non-significant differences were found between the smokers and nonsmokers in mean number of goblet cells in the nasal epithelium (p<0.64), and mean epithelial thickness (p<0.68). The corresponding mean values of congestion were similar in both groups (p<0.35), the same also with the inflammation grade, (p<0.31). The only significant difference was the mean edema grade (p<0.1). Conclusions: The histopathological findings in the VCPs of smokers resemble reported no special findings in the respiratory epithelium between the two groups. Surprisingly these findings are neither in line with the reported smoking-induced changes in nasal mucosa nor the lung respiratory epithelium. More data should be investigated.
IN VITRO THE EFFECT OF GALANGIN ON ROOT-KNOT NEMATODE MELOIDOGYNE INCOGNITA RACE II ASSOCIATED WITH PUNICA

Biotechnology Research Laboratory, D.B. F. Dayanand College of Arts and Science, Solapur (M.S.), India. southraj@gmail.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract: The Root-knot nematode Meloidogyne Species causes severe damage and yield loss to fruit crops in India. Punica granatum L. (Pomegranate), it is an important fruit crop of India. The root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita race II causes the roots of pomegranate. The heavy infection of about nematode causes the yield loss in every year. In the present study to isolate and purify the bioactive compound Galagin in the Rhizome of Alpinia officinarum L. it shows the phytonematicidal activity on Meloidogyne incognita race II.
The Relationship Between Emotional Labor Behaviors and Burnout Levels of Nurses

INTRoDuCTIoN: Nurses exhibit a considerable amount of emotional labor while giving care to patients in addition to physical and mental labor. Physical and mental endeavors of nurses cause them to experience burnout syndrome. AIm: The study was carried out in descriptive and relational research design in order to determine the relation between emotional labor behaviors and burnout levels of nurses. mEThoDS: Study population consisted of nurses employed in four hospitals in a province located in Eastern Anatolia, and the study sample was composed of nurses who agreed to participate in the study. A questionnaire form including questions inquiring socio-demographic properties of nurses, “Emotional Labor Scale” and “Maslach Burnout Scale” was used for data collection. Ethics Committee approval and written official permission were obtained for the study. Usable data were obtained from 264 out of 420 nurses. Data were collected between June and September 2011. Data collection tool was responded by 62.8% of the patients. Data were analyzed with statistical package software. RESulTS: Nurses included in the study were determined to have low emotional labor behavior and burnout levels in general. In addition, positive and significant relations were observed between superficial behavior and emotional burnout and desensitization; emotional labor and deep behaviors and desensitization; and feeling of personal achievement and suppressing real feelings. CoNCluSIoN: As a result of the study, it was concluded that nurses’ emotional labor behaviors are related to their burnout levels.
Annual Research Conference ( SIMSARC 13 ) Growth and Structure of Rural Non-Farm Employment in Maharashtra : Reflections from NSS data in the Post Reform Period

In the post-liberalization frame, employment generation in rural non-farm sector has shown a considerable growth at an all-India level but in Maharashtra the growth of employment in this sector has been a bit stagnant. The present study has been undertaken with the objective of examining the structure, growth and developmental potentials of non-farm activities for employment generation in rural Maharashtra and the determinants of entry into this sector employment in the post-liberalization period since Maharashtra is one of the most urbanized states in India and also a state with maximum incidences of farmer suicides. Based on the unit level National Sample Survey data on employment and unemployment for four quinquinnial rounds 50, 55, 61 and 66, it has been observed that majority of the non-farm workers in the state belonged to the Inland Western region in the postliberalization frame comprising of Pune, Ahmadnagar and Sholapur districts. Gender disparity with regards to employment in rural non-farm sector has been observed as the employment share is dominated by the males while the females constitute a very low share of employment in the same. Employment in trade, hotels and restaurants has seen a considerable increase mainly for the male workers, followed by construction sector. Caste status, proxied by social groups categorized as Other Backward Classes have majority of employment in this sector but their educational levels have been quite low as compared to the “others” in the social groups. This puts forward the role of education and other skills required to obtain economically viable jobs in this sector. The paper thus suggests implementation of proper education and training programmes keeping into account the local conditions of the region of the state to enhance the skills of the rural population which would benefit and provide better possibility of getting employment in non-farm sector. * Corresponding author. Tel. : +0-000-000-0000 ; fax: +0-000-000-0000 . E-mail address: shuchi.misra@gmail.com 138 Shuchi Benara Misra / Procedia Economics and Finance 11 ( 2014 ) 137 – 151 © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies.
The Pass-Through of Minimum Wages into U.S. Retail Prices: Evidence from Supermarket Scanner Data

Abstract This paper estimates the pass-through of minimum wage increases into the prices of U.S. grocery and drug stores. We use high-frequency scanner data and leverage a large number of state-level increases in minimum wages between 2001 and 2012. We find that a 10% minimum wage hike translates into a 0.36% increase in the prices of grocery products. This magnitude is consistent with a full pass-through of cost increases into consumer prices. We show that price adjustments occur mostly in the three months following the passage of minimum wage legislation rather than after implementation, suggesting that pricing of groceries is forward-looking.
1 Thermally driven Marangoni surfers

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The Rise of Life Expectancy and Economic Growth in the 20 th Century by Casper Worm

This study documents that the growth in life expectancy over the 20th century decreased per capita GDP growth and increased population growth. By exploiting significant advances in medical technologies, starting to diffuse in the 1940s, the analysis establishes that countries with higher levels of infectious-disease mortality prior to the medical breakthrough experienced higher growth rates in life expectancy and population size, and lower growth rates in per capita GDP in the time after the medical breakthroughs. These findings are robust to the inclusion of initial life expectancy and initial GDP per capita. The evidence presented here therefore complements the conclusions inferred in the research by Acemoglu and Johnson (2007).