Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Factors Impacting On Patient Compliance with Medical Advice: Empirical Study

Abstract The purpose of this paper to identify factors which have a bearing on compliance with medical advice in various age groups. The survey was conducted, using the CAWI method, on a representative sample of 1000 respondents who declared having used healthcare services in the previous six months. Control of competences is one of the strongest factors which is common for the oldest and youngest groups. Interestingly, trust in the integrity and honesty of doctors is significant for the youngest patients, i.e., the higher is the level of trust, the lower is the tendency to non-comply. Another type of trust is related to the benevolence of doctors and is significant to patients of the middle age group. Satisfaction is a significant predictor in the two oldest groups of patients. High levels of satisfaction seem to deter people from non-adherence to recommended treatment regimens. The results of the present study provide knowledge about the nature and diversity of factors behind patient compliance in various age groups.
AGE DIFFERENCES IN COMPREHENSION OF TRAFFIC SIGN SYMBOLS

Previous research has shown that drivers, particularly elderly ones, do not understand many of the symbolic traffic signs on U.S. highways. Phase I of this research examined comprehension levels of virtually all (85) of the symbols in the U.S. "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways" (FHWA, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1988) as a function of age. Subsequently, new versions of 13 of these symbols and 5 novel symbols were tested. Drivers in Texas, Idaho, and Alberta, Canada, participated in the studies. Of the 85 standard symbols, 16 were understood by more than 95% of drivers; however, 10 were understood by less than 40%. Older drivers had poorer understanding than younger ones of 39% of the symbols examined; for the remainder there were no age differences. In Phase II modifications and redesigns to selected symbols resulted in better understanding of three messages and poorer understanding of four messages. Comprehension of the novel symbols was close to that of the modified and redesigned ones. Again, older drivers had poorer understanding, but there was no systematic relationship between age and changes in comprehension level following revision of the symbols.
Integrated Application of Compost and Inorganic Fertilizers for Production of Potato (Solanum tuberosum l.) at Angacha and Kokate in Southern Ethiopia

Declining soil fertility is one of the major problems causing yield reduction in Ethiopia. Farmers at Angacha and Kokate apply both organic and inorganic fertilizers to overcome the problem and increase yield. However, application of manure is restricted only to homestead areas due to shortage of manure to cover the out field and chemical fertilizers are costly to apply the recommended rate. This experiment was conducted during 2005 and 2006 growing seasons at Angacha and Kokate. The objective of the experiment was to determine the optimum compost and NP fertilizers rate for potato production in the respective locations. Compost was prepared at each location with available materials in respective locations, and incorporated in to the soil 30 days before planting. Improved potato variety Tolcha was used as a test crop. Four levels of N/P (0/0, 36.7/13, 55/19.6, and 73.4/26 kg ha -1 ) and four levels of compost (2.5, 5, 7.5, and 10 t ha -1 ) were arranged in RCBD with factorial experiment with three replications. Nationally recommended NP rate (111 kg N and 39 kg P ha -1 ) was used for comparison. Surface soil samples (0-30 cm) were analyzed for total N, available P, pH and organic matter (organic carbon). Application of compost increased tuber yield at both locations although not significantly. Application of NP increased tuber yield highly significantly (P<0.01) at both locations. The highest yield (34 t ha -1 at Angacha and 30.54 t ha -1 at Kokate) was obtained with application of 111 kg N and 39 kg P ha -1 without compost at both locations with yield advantages of 11.06 t ha -1 and 13.95 t ha -1 at Angacha and Kokate, respectively, and this is economically significant. Application of 10 t ha -1 compost and 73.4 kg N + 26 kg P ha -1 gave yield advantages of 6 and 10.8 t ha -1 at Angacha and Kokate, respectively. In conclusion, combined or sole application of compost and NP fertilizers could increase tuber yield. However, large amount of compost should be applied to significantly increase yield. Farmers in the area can apply choosing either 111 kg N + 39 kg P ha -1 or 10 t + 73.4 kg N + 26 kg P ha -1 depending on their interest, the availability of compost material, labor and money to purchase more fertilizers. Key words: Compost, NP fertilizers, Combined application
MORPHOLOGY, STRENGTH, AND BIOMASS OF MANUKA ROOTS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON SLOPE STABILITY

Manuka (Leptospermum scoparium J.R. et G. Forst.) root systems growing in shallow, stony, hillslope and terrace soils consisted of shallow lateral structural roots up to 275 cm long, and rapidly tapering sinker roots which extended to 120 cm below the ground surface. Mean tensile strength of manuka root wood (34.2 MPa) was similar to that of Nothofagus root wood. Total root biomass averaged 25 tonnes/ha. Manuka roots provide good soil protection against shallow landslides, but this protection diminishes quickly after clearing of manuka scrub.
Large scale methods to enumerate extreme rays and elementary modes

Approaching biological systems quantitatively using mathematical modeling techniques has gained increasing popularity in recent years. In systems biology, the biological complex is considered as a whole, as opposed to studying individual components and interactions. However, this can be very challenging even for simple bacteria, and various modeling techniques have been proposed approaching the enormous complexity at different levels. Simple methods at a high level of abstraction many times lack predictability and significance; detailed models capturing thermodynamic particulars are often limited due to gappy mechanistic knowledge and unknown kinetic parameters. Structural analysis as an intermediate attempt is based on usually wellknown network stoichiometries. Constraint-based methods like linear or convex optimization are able to predict reaction fluxes, growth rates or viability of knockout mutants with high confidence. However, their significance depends heavily on the underlying objectives, and alternative solutions in the flux space are mostly ignored. Comprehensive approaches exist, aiming at analyzing the flux space as a whole. The flux space is a high dimensional solution space for reaction fluxes, bounded by linear constraints on the flux values. Pathway analysis methods define minimal functional modes in the network that are able to comply with the constraints. All possible operation modes are superpositions of such elementary modes. Methods performing the analysis are transforming the descriptive constraints into generative basis vectors. Mathematically, the flux cone shapes a polyhedral cone, and algorithms arise from computational geometry, performing a representation conversion for the cone. Extreme ray enumeration, facet enumeration, vertex enumeration and convex hull are representatives of this family, and they are all related, if not equivalent. Unfortunately, the computation struggles with combinatorial explosion and is computationally intensive. At the beginning of this work, no implementation was applicable to genome scale metabolic networks. Improving the algorithms towards genome scale application is the declared goal of this thesis. The double description method is an algorithm to enumerate extreme rays of a polyhedral cone—or of elementary modes in biological terminology. It has proven efficient especially for degenerate problems, where points and constraints are not in general (e.g. random) position. Most biochemical networks lead to degenerate problems, hence the double description method is usually chosen for pathway computations. Our own implementation is also based on this method, and the present work describes the most important aspects to attain an efficient implementation. Various parts of the algorithm are performance critical and must be considered: it starts with input data, and we review and propose methods to sort and compress the data structures. We also show how to deal with different number types, since we need exact arithmetic for certain ill conditioned problem cases. A central part of the algorithm deals with elementarity of the
ESTIMATION OF COMBINING ABILITY IN F2 POPULATION OF UPLAND COTTON UNDER DROUGHT AND NON-DROUGHT REGIMES

A six-by-six complete Gossypium hirsutum L. , diallel cross was evaluated for general and specific combining abilities in F2 generation during 2006 under drought and non drought conditions at Shah Abdul Latif University Farm, Khairpur. The characters considered were plant height, leaf area, leaf fresh weight, leaf dry weight, number of leaves per plant, number of sympodial branches per plant, number of bolls per plant, boll weight and seed cotton yield per plant. Irrigation treatments were three; normal seven irrigations schedule upto 150 days of crop maturity, four irrigations (medium stress) upto 150 days of crop maturity and two irrigations upto 150 days of maturity (stress conditions). General and specific combining ability analysis revealed that the mean squares for GCA and SCA were significant for all the characters under all the irrigation treatments. The general combining ability estimates of parents for all the characters under study and under all the irrigation treatments were highest for CRIS-134 except for boll weight under four irrigations where CRIS-52 excelled all the parents. Similarly, CRIS-9 followed CRIS-134 in GCA estimates scoring, and ranked second in all irrigation treatments and for all the characters except for boll weight under seven irrigations (where MARVI was second highest), under four irrigations here CRIS-110 was second highest) and under two irrigations where CRIS-52 was second highest. Thus GCA estimates of parents for boll weight are affected by drought conditions and therefore in the selection of desirable parents to give desirable combinations for boll weight, only those combinations be selected with highly significant difference for boll weight towards bigger boll size. Testing of such combinations is recommended to continue upto F5 and F6 generations to get homogeneity of high performing lines/advance strains. As regards to specific combining ability estimates, hybrid CRIS-9 x CRIS-134 gave highest SCA value of 11.54 for seed cotton yield under seven irrigations treatment, while CRIS-9 x CRIS-191 gave highest SCA value of 9.91 under four irrigations treatment for seed cotton yield. Under stress conditions (two irrigations), CRIS-9 x CRIS-134 gave highest SCA value of 12.35 for seed cotton yield. As the seed cotton yield is the main and important attribute for almost all the stakeholders, therefore it is suggested that the particular hybrid CRIS-9 x CRIS-134 may be produced which in present study, has been isolated to give highest SCA values under normal as well as under drought conditions (only two irrigations).
Altering Frequency Estimates of Hindsight Bias in Others Via Stereotyping: Asians as a Model Minority

The role racial stereotypes play in influencing attributions of hindsight bias in others was investigated. White college students made frequency estimates of hindsight bias for I of 3 different ethnic groups—Asians, Blacks, and Whites—with regard to a spoiling event. The bias was estimated to be less for Asians than for both Whiles and Blacks, with no significant difference between the latter two groups. (Consistent with earlier research, this outcome supported the notion of positive stereotyping being linked to Asians; the negative stereotyping ascribed to Blacks was unsubstantiated. Future research should be aimed at the social psychology of hindsight bias, because overestimating its presence in others may lead us to minimize its prominence in out everyday thinking.
Interference coupling analysis based on a hybrid method: application to a radio telescope system

Working in a way that passively receives electromagnetic radiation from a celestial body, a radio telescope can be easily disturbed by external radio frequency interference as well as electromagnetic interference generated by electric and electronic components operating at the telescope site. A quantitative analysis of these interferences must be taken into account carefully for further electromagnetic protection of the radio telescope. In this paper, based on electromagnetic topology theory, a hybrid method that combines the Baum-Liu-Tesche (BLT) equation and transfer function is proposed. In this method, the coupling path of the radio telescope is divided into strong coupling and weak coupling sub-paths, and the coupling intensity criterion is proposed by analyzing the conditions in which the BLT equation simplifies to a transfer function. According to the coupling intensity criterion, the topological model of a typical radio telescope system is established. The proposed method is used to solve the interference response of the radio telescope system by analyzing subsystems with different coupling modes separately and then integrating the responses of the subsystems as the response of the entire system. The validity of the proposed method is verified numerically. The results indicate that the proposed method, compared with the direct solving method, reduces the difficulty and improves the efficiency of interference prediction.
Growth, Distribution, Stability and Government Budget Surplus: The Extended Cambridge Equation Revisited

In the late 80’s Pasinetti showed that the essential feature of the Cambridge Equation is preserved in his model of growth and income distribution with balanced or unbalanced budget. He did not work out both the share of incomes and the conditions of stability and was not formally concerned with a permanent budget surplus. The present paper deals with the case of a closed economy in which, besides direct taxation, indirect taxation on government’s own expenditures is explicitly considered and the government saves permanently at a given rate. The extended Cambridge Equation and the share of profits are obtained. It is also shown that the stability result requires additional assumptions. Boundary conditions are introduced and the long-run local stability result is attained, thus corroborating the generality and robustness of Pasinetti’s original insight.
Oligocene–Miocene paleoceanography off the Wilkes Land Margin (East Antarctica) based on organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts

Abstract. Next to atmospheric CO 2 concentrations, oceanographic conditions are a critical factor determining the stability of Antarctic marine-terminating ice sheets. The Oligocene and Miocene epochs (~ 34–5 Ma) were time intervals with atmospheric CO 2 concentrations between those of present-day and those expected for the near future. As such, these time intervals may bear information to resolve the uncertainties that still exist in the projection of future ice-sheet volume decline. We present organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst (dinocyst) assemblages from chronostratigraphically well-constrained Oligocene to mid-Miocene sediments from Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition (IODP) Site U1356. Situated offshore the Wilkes Land continental margin, East Antarctica, the sediment core has archived past dynamics of an ice sheet that is today mostly grounded below sea level. We interpret dinocyst assemblages in terms of paleoceanographic change on different time scales, i.e., on glacial-interglacial and long-term variability. Sea-ice indicators occur only for the first 1.5 Ma following the full Antarctic continental glaciation during the early Oligocene, and after the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum. During the remainder of the Oligocene and Miocene dinocysts suggest a weaker-than-modern sea-ice season. The assemblages generally bear strong similarity to present-day open-ocean, high-nutrient settings north of the sea ice edge, with episodic dominance of temperate species similar to the present-day subtropical front. Oligotrophic and temperate surface waters prevailed over the site notably during interglacial time intervals, suggesting that the position of the (subpolar) oceanic frontal systems have varied in concordance with Oligocene-Miocene glacial-interglacial climate variability.
Evaluation of maturity characteristics and of yield components

Several bean growing areas in Tanzania have unreliable and marginal rains necessitating use of short maturing and high yielding varieties. Such varieties however, are not, readily available. This study was done to evaluate varieties for maturity, yield and its components in the bean growing areas of Morogoro, Tanzania. Sixty four varieties from the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) collection and from a high percentage protein population were grown at two locations, Mgeta (high altitude) and SUA (low altitude) in 8 x 8 partial lattice with 3 replications during the 1991 season. Yield levels were low, ranging between 0.2 - 0.8 t/ha at Mgeta and 0.06 - 2.0t/ha at SUA. Earlier varieties were superior in yield due to a higher yield efficiency. Varieties grown in the cooler higher altitude areas matured late with consequent reduction in yield. Significant G x E interaction effects were observed for all the variables, except number of seeds per pod. Positive genetic correlations were significant (P ≤ 0.01) at both locations between yield and number of pods per plant, yield efficiency and podfilling period. Yield was genetically and negatively corrected with days to first flower 50% podfill and 85 % maturity. Path coefficient showed that days to first flower had a consistent negative direct effect on yield. At both locations, the negative genetic relationship between days to 50% podfill with yield was attributed to the negative indirect influence through days to first flower. Earlier flowering and maturity, longer podfilling with high pod production and yield efficiency are recommended for higher yields of beans in the study area. Keywords : Earliness, path coefficient, phaseolus vulgaris L, pods, pod filling period, yield efficiency Tanzania J. Agric. Sc. (l998) Vol. 1 No.2, 131-140
Configural encoding in visual feature binding

The role of configural encoding in feature binding was assessed using the change detection paradigm. Experiment 1 studied the relevance of location in colour–shape binding with study–test intervals ranging from 0 to 4100 ms. Location was rendered irrelevant by randomising it from study to test display or was kept unchanged from study to test. Results revealed differences between these two conditions at 0 and 200 ms, but not at 1500, 2800, and 4100 ms, suggesting that location was important for feature binding in the initial stages, but performance at longer study–test intervals was impervious to change in locations. Experiment 2 studied the effect of increasing the study-display duration by comparing performance with display durations of 200, 900, and 1500 ms, at the study test intervals of 0 and 2000 ms. Although, there was a general increase in the level of performance with increasing display duration, the interaction effect obtained in Experiment 1 was replicated. Experiments 3 and 4 studied the effect of sequential presentation of stimuli, otherwise retaining the design and procedure of Experiment 2. Different levels of performance in Experiments 2, 3, and 4 revealed the role of configural encoding in the binding process.
Mechanical and Structural Properties of Graphene-like Carbon Nitride Sheets

Carbon nitride-based nanostructures have attracted special attention (from theory and experiments) due to their remarkable electromechanical properties. In this work we have investigated the mechanical properties of some graphene-like carbon nitride membranes through fully atomistic reactive molecular dynamics simulations. We have analyzed three different structures of these CN families, the so-called graphene-based g-CN, triazine-based g-C3N4 and heptazine-based g-C3N4. The stretching dynamics of these membranes was studied for deformations along their two main axes and at three different temperatures: 10K, 300K and 600K. We show that g-CN membranes have the lowest ultimate fracture strain value, followed by heptazine-based and triazine-based ones, respectively. This behavior can be explained in terms of their differences in terms of density values, topologies and types of chemical bonds. The dependency of the fracture patterns on the stretching directions is also discussed.
Efficacy of "ABG-9008" against burrowing nematode (Radopholus similis) on bananas.

DiTera is a biological nematicide of microbial origin with potential for managing several plant-parasitic nematodes in different crops. Efficacy of ABG-9008, an earlier formulation related to DiT-era, to control the burrowing nematode of bananas was evaluated using direct-contact and root-penetration assays, and in a greenhouse test. Nematodes were incubated for 48 hr at 25 C in 112 and 224 mg/ml suspensions of ABG-9008, corresponding to 112 and 224 kg/ha on a broadcast basis. Suspensions at 15 000 and 75 000 mg/ml also were included. Efficacy of ABG-9008 was assessed at the same rates on Radopholus similis-infected banana root segments in microtiter plates. Efficacy of the product was evaluated under greenhouse conditions by applications at day 0 and 5 after inoculation. Water and fenamiphos at 4.65 mg/ml (4.5 kg/ha) were included as standard controls in all experiments. Percentages of mortality in suspensions, which ranged from 16.8 to 24.6%, were not significantly different betwe
Historical notes on the taxonomy and nomenclature of the recent Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)

The historical background of sixteen taxa in the family Rhinocerotidae is examined in order to assess their types and present status unequivocally. Various taxonomic or nomenclatorial aspects are treated of the following specific names: africanus, annamiticus, asiaticus, brucii, camperi, camperii, camperis, capensis, cucullatus, gordoni, inermis, jamrachi, javanicus, javanus, sondaicus and sumatrensis. A short discussion on the definition of “iconotype” is added.