Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
CHARACTERIZATION OF ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA KINETOCHORE PROTEINS by SARAH RUSHING

by SARAH RUSHING (Under the Direction of R. Kelly Dawe) ABSTRACT The kinetochore is a highly conserved group of proteins involved in proper chromosome segregation by binding to the microtubules. Recent studies have identified more than 80 kinetochore components, many of which have a broad evolutionary conservation from yeast to humans. Among these are MCM21, NDC80, NUF2 and SPC25 that are predicted to be located in the core kinetochore regions and have been shown to have homologues within plants. Through mutant analysis by T-DNA and RNAi, and expression analysis using fluorescent fusion proteins, we attempted to characterize the function and localization of these proteins to further confirm their conservation in plants. We showed that SPC25 localizes to the kinetochore and is constitutively expressed throughout the tissues. It was also shown that mutation of SPC25 and NDC80 has adverse effects on the mutant plant’s development compared to wildtype plants. Based on our data, we suggest that MCM21 is not a conserved feature of the plant kinetochore and SPC25 and NDC80 are most likely conserved in plants. Due to questionable data, we were unable to make any conclusions regarding the location and function of NUF2.
Leaf-scale experiments reveal important omission in the Penman-Monteith equation

The Penman-Monteith (PM) equation is commonly considered the most advanced physically based approach to computing transpiration rates from plants considering stomatal conductance and atmospheric drivers. It has been widely evalu- ated at the canopy scale, where aerodynamic and canopy resistance to water vapour are difficult to estimate directly, leading to various empirical corrections when scaling from leaf to canopy. Here we evaluated the PM equation directly at the leaf scale, using a detailed leaf energy balance model and direct measurements in a controlled, insulated wind tunnel using artificial leaves 5 with fixed and pre-defined "stomatal" conductance. Experimental results were consistent with a detailed leaf energy balance model; however, the results revealed systematic deviations from PM-predicted fluxes, which pointed to fundamental problems with the PM equation. Detailed analysis of the derivation by Monteith (1965) and later amendments revealed two errors in considering the effect of stomata and the two-sided exchange of sensible heat. A corrected set of analytical solutions for leaf temperature as well as latent and sensible heat flux is presented and comparison with the original PM equation indicates a 10 major improvement in reproducing experimental results at the leaf scale. The errors in the original PM equation and its failure to reproduce experimental results at the leaf scale (for which it was originally derived) propagate into inaccurate sensitivities of transpiration and sensible heat fluxes to changes in atmospheric conditions, such as those associated with climate change (even with reasonable present day performance after calibration). The new formulation presented here rectifies some of the shortcomings of the PM equation and could provide a more robust starting point for canopy representation and climate change 15 studies.
Innovation Processes in the Russian Manufacturing Subsidiaries of MNCs – An Integrated View from Case Studies

The extant literature acknowledges the role of overseas subsidiaries in the growth and development of multinational companies (MNCs). Such subsidiaries are viewed as critical players in the innovation process at MNCs. Although this topic has gained importance, it remains largely under-researched in the Russian context. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the dynamics of the innovation process in Russian-based subsidiaries of global MNCs. It seeks to explore and understand motivation and drivers of innovation, key participants, and impact and outcomes of innovation, with a specific reference to the peculiarities of the Russian institutional environment. We present qualitative findings from several case studies of Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of foreign MNCs, which indicate that Russian subsidiaries are not only recipients of knowledge and technology developed elsewhere in the MNCs, but are active developers of innovative products and solutions that are later applied in other units of the respective MNCs
Changing-sign solutions for the CR-Yamabe equation

In this paper we prove that the CR-Yamabe equation on the Heisenberg group has innitely many changing-sign solutions. By means of the Cayley transform we will set the problem on the sphere S 2n+1 ; since the functional I associated with the equation does not satisfy the Palais-Smale compactness condition, we will nd a suitable closed subspace X on which we can apply the minmax argument for IjX. We generalize the result to any compact contact manifold of K-contact type.
Labour Market Conditions–Female Labour Supply Nexus: The Role of Globalization in Pakistan

This study examines the impact of female wages, unemployment, foreign remittances and globalization on female labour supply over the period from 1980 to 2010. We have applied the autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) bounds testing to test whether cointegration exists between variables. Our results show that variables are integrated for a long-run relationship. Moreover, female wages attract female labour supply. Foreign remittances and globalization raise female labour supply, whereas unemployment lowers it. The relation between female wages and female labour supply is U-shaped. The causality analysis reveals that female wages, foreign remittances, globalization and unemployment Granger affect female labour supply.
Tilburg University The Degree of Financial Liberalization and Aggregated Stock-return Volatility in Emerging Markets

In this study, we address whether the degree of financial liberalization affects the aggregated total volatility of stock returns by considering the time-varying nature of financial liberalization. We also explore channels through which the degree of financial liberalization impacts aggregated total volatility. We document a negative relation to the degree of financial liberalization after controlling for size, liquidity, country, and crisis effects, especially for small and medium-sized markets. Moreover, the degree of financial liberalization transmits its negative impact on aggregated total volatility through aggregated idiosyncratic and local volatilities. Overall, our results provide evidence in favor of the view that the broadening of the investor base due to the increasing degree of financial liberalization causes a reduction in the total volatility of stock returns.
Effects of Exogenous Salicylic Acid Application on Growth, Metabolic Activities and Essential Oil Composition of Satureja khuzistanica Jamzad

Background: Satureja khuzistanica Jamzad, with the common Persian name “marzeh khuzestani”, is an endemic medicinal plant, distributed in the southwestern areas of Iran. Salicylic acid (SA) is a signaling molecule and a hormone-like substance that plays an important role in the plant physiological processes. Objective: This study was conducted to determine the influence of foliar SA application (0, 50, 100, 200 and 400 mg.L -1 ) at two times including vegetative stage (VS) and both vegetative and reproductive stages (VS+RS) on growth parameters, enzymes activity including superoxide dismutase (SOD) and polyphenol oxidase (PPO), prptein content, essential oil percentage and composition of S. khuzistanica under field conditions. Methods: The essential oils were isolated from aerial flowering parts of the plants by hydrodistillation method and then subjected to GC and GC-MS analyses to determine the oil constituents. Results: Results showed that SA application at 100 and 200 mg.L -1 were the most effective treatments in growth characteristics, but the highest essential oil content and yield was obtained at 400 mg.L -1 SA treatment. In both spraying times, plants treated with 100 and 200 mg.L -1 SA concentration showed more PPO and SOD activity than control plants, respectively. Also, results showed that the 14 compositions were identified in essential oil of plants under all employed treatments. Carvacrol was the major component of oils, which is also showed more variability than that of other components. Conclusion: It was concluded that foliar spray of SA at low concentration once at vegetative and second time at reproductive stage might be employed for enhancing both primary and secondary metabolites production of S. khuzistanica plants.
impact of family and education on reading fiction books Reading behaviour from adolescence to early adulthood : A panel study of the

In this article we study how the frequency of book-reading – a form of legitimate culture – develops in the period from adolescence to young adulthood and how it is influenced by parents’ education, parental reading socialization climate, school and their interactions. In disentangling parental and educational effects we contribute to the cultural reproduction–cultural mobility debate. We use multi-actor panel data on three cohorts of Dutch secondary school students (and their parents) who took part in a classroom survey between the ages of 14 and 17, and who participated in at least one of the follow-up surveys two, four and six years later. We find that the amount of book-reading is more strongly associated with education than with parents’ reading socialization. The influence of parents increases slightly in the period from adolescence to young adulthood. Differences in reading behaviour between students of different educational programmes increase during secondary education, but decrease in the period after secondary schooling. The transition to tertiary education hardly affects the frequency of reading. Overall, the results are more in line with the cultural reproduction model than with the cultural mobility model.
Evolución de la toma de decisiones y la habilidad técnica en fútbol / Decision Making and Technical Skills Evolution in Football pp. 467-487

Este articulo presenta como se desarrolla la toma de decisiones y la habilidad tecnica en jugadores con alto nivel de pericia desde los 6-7 a 13-14 anos. El marco teoricoesta basado en la perspectiva de los sistemas dinamicos y la ensenanza comprensiva de los deportes. Se tomo como muestra a 57 jugadores del primer equipo de cadacategoria de edad del Albacete Balompie: prebenjamin, benjamin, alevin e infantil. El instrumento usado fue la Herramienta de Evaluacion del Rendimiento de Juego (HERJ), quemide la toma de decisiones y la ejecucion, incluyendo el analisis ecologico atendiendo a principios tacticos (Bayer, 1992), comparando la situacion en el juego con la decisionaplicada. Los resultados se basan en el analisis inferencial y correlacional. La evolucion del rendimiento de juego se orienta desde el ataque hasta la defensa. Se han encontradodiferencias significativas en las variables entre las cuatro categorias de formacion estudiadas, especialmente en el principio tactico de progresar hacia la porteria contraria y en eldesmarque, asi como en el marcaje y la ayuda en defensa. PALABRAS CLAVE: Deporte, sistemas dinamicos, rendimiento de juego, toma de decisiones, estrategia, principios tacticos. ABSTRACT This paper presents how decision-making and skills are developed in high level of expertise players from 6-7 to 13-14 years. The framework is based on the dynamical systems and teaching games for understanding approaches. Participants were 57 first team players of each age (n = 13 to 16) of Albacete Balompie: U-8, U-10, U-12 and U-14. The Game Performance Assessment Tool (GPET) was the instrument used for assessment, which measures decision-making and execution from an ecological view in relation to tactical principles (Bayer, 1992), comparing the game situation with the decision applied. The results are based on inferential and correlation analysis. The evolution of knowledge evolves attack to defensive. We have found significant differences in variables between the four age categories studied. These differences have been shown in attack: the progress toward goal tactical principle and shake off; on defence: marking and cover (off-ball defenders). KEY WORDS: Sport, dynamical systems, Game performance, decision making, tactical awareness, tactical principles.
Equine Cervical Vertebral Malformation DEFINITION

Neurological diseases can be some of the most devastating and dangerous clinical problems seen in horses. Due to their size, strength, and temperament, neurological horses can become a danger to themselves or to those around them. Several neurological diseases of the horse have nutritional origins. Large, fast-growing young horses which are overfed can sometimes become wobblers. Equine protozoal myelitis is caused by organisms which are transmitted to the horse orally, via grain, hay, pasture, or water. Equine degenerative myelopathy and equine motor neuron disease are both rarer conditions which have been linked to dietary vitamin E deficiencies. Some of these neurological diseases are treatable, but most are preventable with proper, balanced nutrition in appropriate daily amounts.
Post Cinematic Affect

Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new digital technologies, together with economic globalization and the financialization of more and more human activities. The 20th century was the age of film and television; these dominant media shaped and reflected our cultural sensibilities. In the 21st century, new digital media help to shape and reflect new forms of sensibility. Movies (moving image and sound works) continue to be made, but they have adopted new formal strategies, they are viewed under massively changed conditions, and they address their spectators in different ways than was the case in the 20th century. The book traces these changes, focusing on four recent moving-image works: Nick Hooker's music video for Grace Jones' song Corporate Cannibal; Olivier Assayas' movie Boarding Gate, starring Asia Argento; Richard Kelly's movie Southland Tales, featuring Justin Timberlake, Dwayne Johnson, and other pop culture celebrities; and Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's Gamer.
Response of sweet pepper grown in sandy and clay soil lysimeters to water regimes.

3 Abstract: This investigation was carried out in lysimeters at the Experimental Station of Arid Land Cultivation Research Istitute, Ain Shams University, Cairo, in the early summer seasons of 2008 and 2009. This work aimed to study the response of sweet pepper CV, Mader grown in two soil types (sandy and clay) to four water regiemes (50, 70, 90 and 110 % of ET , culculated by Penman equation). The results revealed that moderate 0 (90 % ET ) and medium (70 % ET ) irrigation regimes were able to compete high irrigation levels (110 % of ET ) 00 0 regarding sweet pepper vegetative growth traits ie. , plant length, stem diameter, total fresh and dry weight of plants and root/ shoot ratio as well as early yield. Since there were no recorded significant differences among them, even there were high or very high significance for investigated irrigation regimes on most recorded vegetative growth traits. Concerning early yield also, there were significant effects of investigated irrigation regimes at 5% levels. Regarding total yield, average fruit weight and water use effeceincy, high irrigation levels exhibited significantly higher values than those obtained from moderate irrigation levels which exceeded medium irrigation levels without significant differences between moderate and medium irrigation levels. Opposite trend was detected in sweet pepper fruits total soluble solids. Plants grown in clay soil were significantly superior to those grown in sandy soil, regarding the vegetative growth traits, yield components and most of recorded fruits characters. There were no significant effects of soil types on water use effeceincy. Plants grown in clay soil and irrigated with high or moderate levels of ET (110 or 90 %) produced the highest 0 values of most investigated characters under the present condition. Meanwhile, under lemited irrigation water supply medium (70% of ET ) irrigation regime might be applied since, only minor reduction in yield occurred 0 parallel with great water consumption could be reduced.
Serum Level of Galectin-3 in Patients with Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Introduction : Galectin-3, a member of the family of β-galactoside-binding animal lectins, has been implicated in tumor invasion and metastasis. Materials and Methods : Using an ELISAkit, we assessed the circulating levels of galectin-3 in sera from 40 oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) patients and from 43 healthy controls. Results : Serum galectin-3 levels in OSCC patients were significantly higher (5.1±2.5 ng/ml) when compared with healthy controls (2.6±3.07 ng/ml, P<0.0005). There was no apparent correlation between serum galectin-3 concentration and clinico-pathological features such as stage, tumor size, nodal status, distant metastasis and histological grade. Conclusion : This result suggests that, in addition to other tests, measurement of serum galectin-3 concentrations can be utilized as an adjuvant test for establishing a diagnosis of OSCC.
A simple approach to facial expression recognition

Human face-to-face communication plays an important role in human communication and interaction. In recent years, several different approaches have been proposed for developing methods of automatic facial expression analysis. In this paper, a simple approach to automatic facial expression recognition is presented. The proposed system is able to automatically perform human face detection, feature point extraction and facial expression recognition from image sequences. The facial recognition procedures involves in two stages. At the first stage, three multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) are separately trained to recognize action units involving in the eyebrows, the eyes and the mouth regions. Then individual expression network was trained to recognize five basic facial expressions based on the outputs computed from the aforementioned three MLPs. Experiments were conducted to test the performance of the proposed facial expression recognition system.
Taxes Do Affect Corporate Financing Decisions: The Case of Belgian ACE

In this paper, I use difference-in-differences regressions to measure how the debt tax shield affects the capital structure of a company. By comparing the financial leverage of treatment and control companies before and after the introduction of an equity tax shield, I infer the impact of the tax discrimination between debt and equity. Consistent with the theoretical prediction, the estimated results show that the introduction of an equity tax shield has a significant negative effect on the financial leverage of a company. This effect amounts to approximately 2-7%, meaning that a classical tax system encourages companies to use on average 2-7% more debt than when there is an equal tax treatment of debt and equity.
Is the Fiscal Policy Increasing Income Inequality in Uruguay

Despite being one of the countries with lower levels of inequality in Latin America, Uruguay is characterized by persistent high inequality levels in relation to that upper-middle or high income countries with similar relative size of the public sector. This paper investigates to what extent these two features are interconnected and whether economic growth affects and is affected by this relationship. Empirical results from Vector Autoregression (VAR) models reveal the existence of important long-run Keynesian effects associated to public expenditure, and that the country’s expenditure structure is, in part, responsible for increasing disposable household’s income inequality, being the public investment the only fiscal policy that breaks this tendency.
Endurance of Compacted Steel Wire Ropes

Abstract This paper describes an investigation of fatigue resistance in different steel wire rope constructions used in Norwegian cable logging operations. Test results indicate the following: • A clear difference in fatigue resistance between ropes (approximately 50% decreased endurance for the compacted rope of highest density). • Differences in rope wear for varying angles of deflection. • A correlation between the number of visible broken wires and remaining strength in the rope.
State and Determinants of Real Estate Market Development in Central and Eastern European Countries on the Example of Poland and Bulgaria

Abstract In this paper, the specificity of release and transformation processes of real estate markets in two postsocialist bloc countries, i.e. Bulgaria and Poland, was diagnosed. Comparative analysis of the conditions and directions of change was used as a tool to clarify the current situation, current status and characteristics of these markets. Comparison of Poland and Bulgaria also indicates the prospects for the development of real estate markets. The article is an attempt at assessing the condition and evolutionary progress of the residential segment. The authors also selected obstacles and factors promoting the development of real estate markets in the analyzed countries. This will either enable the critical assessment of changes observed in the past, or prove helpful in the context forecasting market phenomena.
A study of outcome of induction of labour with foley’s balloon in previous LSCS cases

Background: Induction of labour in a scarred uterus is a controversial topic in Obstetric practice, but in carefully selected and monitored cases never the less the outcome is gratifying. When the baby is non-salvageable, or in cases of IUFD, it is always desirable to achieve a vaginal delivery. Many of the professional organizations recommend induction of labour in previous LSCS. Thus, this study was done to evaluate the success rate, determinants of failure and complications of induction of labour with foley’s catheter in patients with previous 1 LSCS. Methods: 62 patients were recruited over a period of 1 year and studied at Vani Vilas Hospital, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, all with previous 1 LSCS. 34% of them were with past h/o 1 or more vaginal delivery. 8% were term pregnancies, 64% were between 28-32 weeks. Induction was done for IUFD in 56% and, HDP warranting termination in 44%. Induction done with Foley’s catheter, expulsion of catheter with filled bulb and uterine contraction initiation was taken as successful induction. The patient profile in cases of failure was noted. Results: 83% was the success rate for induction out of which 30% cases required additional PGE2 gel. Oxytocin and ARM alone or together were used for augmentation in 90% cases. Induction to foley’s expulsion average duration was 14 hours. Post expulsion delivery happened at an average time interval of 5 hours. One patient had rupture uterus during the course of augmentation. Conclusions: Induction can be done safely in carefully selected cases of previous LSCS with Foley’s Balloon.
Mixed Logit Estimation of Radical Islamic Terrorism in Europe and North America

This article estimates what characteristics (e.g., location, number of casualties, and type of attack) are associated with an Islamic terrorist attack. This is established by identifying the significant determinants of the probability that an attack had been carried out by Islamic terrorists. For Europe, the United States, and Canada, the analysis employs ITERATE (International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events) data from October 1979 to December 2002 to ascertain the significant characteristics of Islamic terrorist attacks. A random-parameter logit model is used to analyze the probability of such attacks, taking into account the heterogeneity of the sample data. This model outperforms the standard logit model. Some policy implications are presented.