Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Localization factors and development strategies for producer services: a case study of Belgrade, Serbia

This article highlights the patterns of Advanced Producer Services (APS) in Belgrade and relates them to contemporary spatial and economic intrametropolitan transformations. The locational strategies of APS have influenced the creation of another center called New Belgrade next to the traditional central business district (CBD). Over the last ten years, government planning documents and the location preferences of foreign firms have made New Belgrade the most attractive business location in Serbia. In a sample of the leading APS firms in Belgrade, 129 firms are analyzed in terms of firm sector, ownership, and location. The results confirm the multipolar-monocentric pattern, which appears to be a common feature in many European cities.
Testing a nonlinear model for simulating the time of seedling emergence of wheat

H. Wang , H. Cutforth, P.R. Bullock, R.M. DePauw, T. McCaig, G. McLeod, K. Brandt and G.J. Finlay Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri Food Canada, Box 1030, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, S9H 3X2 Canada; Department of Soil Science, University of Manitoba, 362 Ellis Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2 Canada; and The Canadian Wheat Board, 423 Main Street, P.O. Box 816, Stn. Main, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 2P5 Canada. *Email: hong.wang@agr.gc. ca
Molecular Pathotyping of Newcastle Disease Virus from Naturally Infected Chickens by RT-PCR and RFLP Methods

Newcastle disease is an infectious disease in poultry caused by the Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) which belongs to the family Paramyxoviridae. The NDV can infect various species of birds, both domestic and wild birds with highly morbidity and mortality. Based on the pathotype, NDV can be classified into velogenic (high), mesogenic (moderate) and lentogenic (low) pathotypes, however, clinical symptoms appear on infected birds are often similar that it is difficult to distinguish. In this study, molecular pathotyping of NDV has been done to ten virus isolates that isolated from various type of chicken which naturally infected by NDV using a combination method of RT-PCR and RFLP. It was then compared with quantification of Mean Death Time (MDT) value and DNA sequencing which is commonly method used for NDV pathotyping. The aim of this study was to develop a rapid, precise and efficient method for NDV pathotyping by combination method of RT-PCR amplification and RFLP using HinfI restriction enzyme. The results of NDV pathotyping showed that combination of RT-PCR amplification and RFLP using HinfI enzyme can be used well to differentiate the pathotype of virulent NDV versus avirulent NDV rapidly, accurately and efficiently. A total of ten NDV samples isolated from naturally NDV infected chickens showed that three samples are avirulent NDV, while seven other samples are virulent NDV. In compared with other pathotyping methods, namely MDT quantification and DNA sequencing, the molecular NDV pathotyping by RT-PCR and RFLP methods showed similar conclusion and consistent with highly compatibility.
ESCHERICHIA COLI, OTHER COLIFORM, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMOHETEROTROPHIC BACTERIA IN ISOLATED WATER POOLS FROM SIX CAVES IN NORTHERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA

Escherichia coli and other bacteria can be used as indicators of water quality within a cave ecosystem. However, bacterial species within caves have not been thoroughly documented, especially in the southeastern United States. Water from isolated pools was gathered along transects from six caves in northern Alabama and northwestern Georgia. We used cultivation techniques to isolate and characterize bacteria. Diversity of coliforms and some environmental genera were determined for each cave, and abundance was determined for E. coli and other coliforms. Distance from the entrance in most caves did not statistically correlate with abundance or species richness of bacteria. A total of fifty bacterial species and one fungal species were isolated from the six caves, with over half of these species considered potentially pathogenic in humans. Some species isolated, such as Vibrio alginolyticus and V. fluvialis, are considered primarily marine and are not expected isolates of cave waters. Most of the species we isolated have never been reported from limestone cave ecosystems. Overall, coliforms were found in all tested caves, indicating fecal contamination of all six caves.
Charismatic, transformational and visionary dimensions in sport leadership : toward news paths for the study of coach-athletes relationships

THE 1970s AND 1980s MARKED THE BEGINNING OF NEW APPROACHES to the study of leadership. Such perspectives tried to integrate different principles and assumptions, from the most classic ones, such as the trait personality, to the situational and interactive/integrative approaches (Bryman, 1992; Fiol, 1999; Yukl, 1989). Illustrative of such attempts and the most visible proposals were those of Charismatic Leadership Theory (House, 1977), Theory of Transforming Leadership (Burns, 1978), Charismatic Theory (Conger & Kanungo, 1987, 1998), Full Range of Leadership Model (Bass, 1985, 1998), as well as other authors who developed Visionary Leadership’s Theories (see Bennis & Nanus, 1985; Kouzes & Posner, 1987; Sashkin, 1988). The last decades have been dominated by this new “wave,” interested in leaders’ charismatic and transformational ability and skills on their relationship with coworkers, even when facing extreme crisis situations or highly external competition (Rego, 1998). Previous research on this subject seems to indicate that these leaders have the ability to achieve exceptional results mainly in the following areas: (1) reformulating beliefs about the organization’s values and ideological references; (2) presenting
Regional‐scale convection patterns during strong and weak phases of the Saharan heat low

The West African heat low, which is defined as a thermal depression generally below 700 hPa over West Africa, is stationary over the Sahara during the summer season and is often referred to as the Saharan heat low (SHL). This SHL displays synoptic and intra‐seasonal pulsations of its intensity on time scales under 60 days.
The Neo-liberal City as Idea and Reality

Abstract Although there have been substantial changes in the techniques of public management and the rhetoric of urban policy, there is little evidence of the massive withdrawal of the state, de-regulation of city life, reduction in urban public goods, or decline in the role of inter-regional transfers in regional development. These phenomena are frequently cited in the literature arguing that cities and urban policy have become neo-liberal. A principal reason why the critical neo-liberalist literature makes its largely erroneous claim about changes in urban management and policy is that it fails to master liberal economic concepts, and to clearly distinguish them from neo-liberal, illiberal, or laissez-faire reasoning. This paper shows that the literature makes substantial errors in labelling many governmentality practices as neo-liberal, because many of them are caused by pragmatic responses to technological and demographic change, while many others result from the opposite of neo-liberal ideologies, that is, social movements that reject monolithic regulatory state power and press for new, more diversified ways of life. The paper concludes by arguing that the weaknesses of the critical neo-liberalism literature stem from failure to engage with economic and social theory analytics in a disciplined fashion, as well as from normative bias.
Predicting Externalizing Behaviors in Latino Adolescents Using Parenting and EducationalFactors

Predicting Externalizing Behaviors in Latino Adolescents Using Parenting and Educational Factors Sergio Benjamín Pereyra School of Family Life, BYU Doctor of Philosophy Externalizing behaviors among adolescents continue to concern researchers and clinicians nationwide, especially among Latinos who are part of the largest and fastest growing minority population in the U. S. This dissertation begins by describing an eco-developmental model, which provides the theoretical framework used to conceptualize the systemic factors being studied and by reviewing the relevant literature regarding the influence of parental warmth, parental behavioral control, the adolescent-teacher relationship, and academic achievement on externalizing behavior among Latino adolescents. This study uses the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health survey (Add Health) data to analyze direct and indirect effects of parenting and school-related factors on externalizing behavior among Latino adolescents over four waves of time. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), latent growth curve modeling, bootstrapping, and latent scoring were all employed to test the hypothesized models. Results indicated that higher levels of maternal warmth, the adolescent-teacher relationship and academic achievement were all negatively associated with initial levels of externalizing behavior and in some cases negatively predicted the rate of change of externalizing behavior. Paternal warmth, behavioral control and academic achievement were all found to be positively associated with academic achievement. In terms of indirect effects, paternal warmth negatively predicted initial levels and the slope of externalizing behavior through academic achievement. Behavioral control was also negatively predictive of initial levels and the slope of externalizing behavior through academic achievement. Finally, direct and indirect effects were found between the adolescent-teacher relationship and both initial levels and the slope of externalizing behavior through academic achievement. Implications for these findings are discussed according to an eco-developmental framework, and culturally appropriate recommendations for clinicians and educators are offered to facilitate the increase of parental warmth and behavioral control in Latino families and for improving the adolescent-teacher relationship in school systems. A culturally adapted parenting training model and a strong evidence-based, family therapy intervention is recommended to clinicians to address these issues in Latino families and critical race theory (CRT) and Latino critical race theory (LatCrit) are implemented to inform recommendations offered to educators to address the academic-specific factors influencing externalizing behaviors among Latino adolescents.
USING SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHIC MISSION IMAGERY TO IDENTIFY INLAND VALLEY AREAS AND THE SOIL SUITABILITY STUDIES FOR VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN AKURE SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA NIGERIA

The Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) imagery was used in 2012 to identify stream courses in Akure South Local Government Area (AKSLGA) where Akure (Latitute 7 0 15‘N and Longitude 5 0 15‘E) the capital of Ondo State Nigeria which had witnessed a tremendous urban sprawl in the last twenty years was located. The cultivation of vegetable in the inland valley areas was a way to improve the income and diet of the city dwellers. The polygonized boundary of AKSLGA which was superimposed on SRTM image was extracted out while the focal statistics, the contour lines at an interval of 10 m and the stream courses were generated using the Spatial Analyst Tools in ArcMap. The streams were each buffered at a distance of 100 m to generate the inland valley areas using the Analysis/ Proximity/ Buffer Tools. The soils were generally sandy loam while the average bulk densities and gravel content values were 1.53 g/cm 3 and 9% respectively. The nutrient concentration showed mean values of 1.02 %, 11.2 ppm, 0.25 cmol/kg, 3.77 cmol/kg, 1.66 cmol/kg and 3.32 % for nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium and organic matter respectively which were suitable soil conditions for vegetable production.
Openness, competition, technology and FDI spillovers: Evidence from Romania

We study whether FDI spillovers depend on openness, competition and the level of technology in a sample of Romanian manufacturing …rms. Spillovers depend on the level of technology in non-linear way and are more likely to be positive in open sectors than in closed sectors. Horizontal spillovers are especially bene…cial export-oriented and competitive sectors. Backward spillovers are very positive for …rms that face globalized competition on their home and export markets, in line with RodriguezClare (1996). Forward spillovers are especially important for …rms that face high levels of import penetration in their product markets
Biological Activity of Extracts from Morus alba L., Albizzia lebbeck (L.) Benth. and Casuarina glauca Sieber Against the Growth of some Pathogenic Bacteria

Different extracts from sapwood, heartwood and bark from Morus alba , Albizzia lebbeck and Casuarinaglauca were used as an antibacterial agent against the growth of some pathogenic bacteria. Methanol(80%) was used for the extraction and ethyl acetate, n -butanol, chloroform and water were used for thesubsequent partitioning. The in vitro antibacterial activity was performed by disc diffusion and 96-wellmicro-plates methods. The antibacterial activity was compared with standard antibiotics. The ethyl acetatefraction (EtOAc fr) of wood and bark exhibited the strongest antibacterial activity against the studiedbacterial strains. The most active extracts were observed by M. alba . The extracts of A. lebbeck and C.glauca showed a weak to moderate activity against the tested bacterial strains. These results are of interestsince they have been obtained with methanol extract and its fractions dissolved into different solvents,and are not a pure product. It could be considered that the extracts of M. alba, A. lebbeck and C. glaucahave a good potency level of antibacterial activity. The obtained results might be considered sufficient forfurther studies about the isolation and identification of active principles compounds especially from C.glauca.
Acute Diarrhea Etiology in Young Children and Adults in the Republic of Maldives—A Point Prevalence Study

Introduction: Despite its recent status of middle-income country in WHO’s South-East Asia Region, diarrhea remains an important yet unresearched public health issue in the Republic of Maldives. Methodology: We conducted a one-month cross-sectional study in children and adults with acute diarrhea at three regional hospitals in Maldives in August-September 2007 to investigate the point-prevalence of diarrhea etiologic agents. Enteric Bacteria was identified by a standard microbiology technique and isolates were submitted for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Rotavirus, astrovirus and adenovirus were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA). Real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was used to test for norovirus. Results: We enrolled 73 children and 57 adults with acute diarrhea. The most common pathogens detected in children were norovirus (43%) and rotavirus (18%). Vibrio parahaemolyticus (18%) and rotavirus (17%) were the most common pathogens found in adults. Multiple and mixed infections were common. All noroviruses were identified as genogroup II/type 4(GII/4). The genotype distributions of rotaviruses were G2P[4] (48%), G12P[6] (37%), G2P[6] (5%), G9P[8] (5%), and non-typeable G2 (5%). Conclusions: This study provides preliminary data on the importance of norovirus and rotavirus as diarrhea etiologic agents in Maldives. A systematic prospective diarrhea surveillance documenting disease burden, etiology, seasonal variation, as well as risk factors should be conducted for the development of public health interventions to reduce diarrhea morbidity and mortality in Maldives.
Exploring the Relationship between Social Environment and Customer Experience

The emergence of “experience” as another forms of business offerings (Pine and Gilmore, 1999) and the failure of implementing customer relationship management to create the expected levels of value for customers and profitability for organizations (Palmer, 2010; Barnes, 2002) have prompted the practitioners and academic scholars to explore the successor of customer relationship management, which is known as customer experience. Pine and Gilmore (1999) asserted that companies need to create memorable experiences to each customer for the purpose of generating greater economic value in the experience-based economy, instead of simply making goods and delivering services to the customers (Kim, Cha, Knutson and Beck, 2011). For the purpose of creating differentiated and memorable customer experience, this research paper would like to evaluate the direct and indirect relationship between social environment and customer experience (including sensory experience, emotional experience and social experience). A total of 330 respondents participate in this research. The findings revealed thatsocial environment is related to the sensory experience and emotional experience respectively.Furthermore, the research findings also concluded the interactive relationships between the dimensions of the customer experience: (1) the sensory experience is positively related to the emotional experience; (2) the emotional experience is positively related to the social experience; and (3) the sensory experience is positively related to the social experience.
Silent pauses and disfluencies in simultaneous interpretation: A descriptive anaysis

Literature on simultaneous interpretation (SI) contains many recommendations addressed to interpreters on the need to avoid pauses and interruptions in order to produce a more fluent high-quality delivery. Yet not many scholars have gone deeper into this subject and questions still remain open as to whether such occurrences depend on the interpreter, situational constraints of SI or the source-text (ST). In order to start investigating this subject ten interpretation students were asked to translate simultaneously two text excerpts of a spontaneous speech containing pauses, hesitations and interruptions. It is the aim of this study to analyse whether and to what extent the presence of such occurrences in the ST affects the interpreter’s comprehension and delivery. Occurrences in both ST and target-texts (TT) were described in an attempt to produce a taxonomy which can be specifically applied to SI; pauses and interruptions were not seen as mere interruptions of fluency; whenever possible, their communicative value and/or tactical use were stressed.
The Relationships between Tropical Pacific and Atlantic SST and Northeast Brazil Monthly Precipitation

The monthly patterns of northeast Brazil (NEB) precipitation are analyzed in relation to sea surface temperature (SST) in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, using singular value decomposition. It is found that the relationships between precipitation and SST in both basins vary considerably throughout the rainy season (February‐May). In January, equatorial Pacific SST is weakly correlated with precipitation in small areas of southern NEB, but Atlantic SST shows no significant correlation with regional precipitation. In February, Pacific SST is not well related to precipitation, but south equatorial Atlantic SST is positively correlated with precipitation over the northern Nordeste, the latter most likely reflecting an anomalously early (or late) southward migration of the ITCZ precipitation zone. During March, equatorial Pacific SST is negatively correlated with Nordeste precipitation, but no consistent relationship between precipitation and Atlantic SST is found. Atlantic SST‐ precipitation correlations for April and May are the strongest found among all months or either ocean. Precipitation in the Nordeste is positively correlated with SST in the south tropical Atlantic and negatively correlated with SST in the north tropical Atlantic. These relationships are strong enough to determine the structure of the seasonal mean SST‐precipitation correlations, even though the corresponding patterns for the earlier months of the season are quite different. Pacific SST‐precipitation correlations for April and May are similar to those for March. Extreme wet (dry) years for the Nordeste occur when both Pacific and Atlantic SST patterns for April and May occur simultaneously. A separate analysis reinforces previous findings in showing that SST in the tropical Pacific and the northern tropical Atlantic are positively correlated and that tropical Pacific‐south Atlantic correlations are negligible. Time-lagged analyses show the potential for forecasting either seasonal mean or monthly precipitation patterns with some degree of skill. In some instances, individual monthly mean SST versus seasonal mean (February‐ May) precipitation relationships differ considerably from the corresponding monthly SST versus monthly precipitation relationships. It is argued that the seasonal mean relationships result from the relatively strong monthly relationships toward the end of the season, combined with the considerable persistence of SST in both oceans.
Editor Note: Medical Microbiology & Diagnosis

Research by El-Banna et al. studied the effects of antihistamine drugs on adaptations of Gram-negative bacteria to resist antimicrobial agents were investigated. Marked synergism was detected in multidrug resistant (MDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates when the ethanolamine antihistaminic, diphenhydramine, was used in combination with a variety of antibiotics such as azithromycin, erythromycin, amikacin, gentamicin or ciprofloxacin. This information can be useful in the treatment of infectious diseases, especially in this era of emerging multi-drug resistant strains [2].
Potential use of the veris apparent EC sensor to predict soil texture under the semi-arid conditions of central Arizona

The operational details of the apparent electrical conductivity (ECa) sensor manufactured by Veris Technologies have been extensively documented in literature reports, but the geographical distribution of these research studies indicate a strong regional concentration in the US Mid-west and Southern states. The agricultural lands of these states diverge significantly to the soil conditions and water regime of irrigated land in the US South-western states such as Arizona where there is no previous research reports of the use of this particular sensor. The objectives of the present study were to analyze the performance of this sensor under the conditions of typical soils in irrigated farms of Central Arizona. We tested under static conditions the performance of the sensor on three soils of contrasting texture. Observations were collected as time series data as soil moisture changed from saturation to permanent wilting point. Observations were repeated at the hours of lowest and highest temperatures. In addition, this study included soil penetration resistance and salinity determinations. Preliminary results indicate that soil temperature of the upper layer caused the most dynamic change in the sensor output. The ECa curves of the three soil textures tested had well defined distinctive characteristics. Final multivariate analysis is pending.