Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Investigations on Population of Blueberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) in Uludag (Mount Olympus) in Bursa, Turkey

Bu calisma, 2005 yilinda Bursa-Uludag’ da yayilisi saptanan “Coban uzumu” veya “yabani mersini” olarak bilinen Vaccinium myrtillus L. populasyonlarinin durumunu tespit etmek amaciyla gerceklestirilmistir. Bu nedenle, turun Uludag’in farkli yorelerinden (Kirazliyayla, Sarialan, Cobankaya, Bakacak ve Alacam) alinan orneklerde incelemeler yapilmistir. Calismada yaban mersininin tanimlamasi, yayilisi, ekolojisi ve toprak yapilari hakkinda bilgiler verilmistir. Ayrica bu bitkilerden meyve ornekleri alinarak, bazi fiziksel (100 tane agirligi, meyve rengi) ve kimyasal (askorbik asit, toplam asit, pH ve suda cozunur kuru madde) analizler yapilmistir. Uludag’in farkli yorelerinde yapilan gozlemler sonucunda bitkinin, dagin kuzey yonundeki nemli bolgelerde, 1250-1900 m yuksekliklerde ve cogunlukla goknar (Abies nordmanniana subsp. bornmuelleriana) agaclari altinda yogun populasyonlar halinde yayilis gosterdigi saptanmistir. Bitkinin incelenen populasyonlarindaki topraklarin pH duzeyinin 4.9-6.6 arsinda degistigi gorulmustur. Bu yorelerden derimi yapilan meyvelerin askorbik asit duzeylerinin de oldukca yuksek oldugu saptanmistir. Calismamiz, yaban mersini genetik kaynaklari acisindan Uludag yoresinin onemli ozellige sahip oldugunu ortaya koymustur
From English of Specific Cultures to English for Specific Cultures in Global Coursebooks in EIL Era

The global spread of English and the advent of a need for English as an International Language has become one of the hotly-debated issues in recent years. This owes much to the fact that English speakers today are more likely to be non-native speakers of English than native speakers, and most likely to use English in communication with other non-native speakers of English than native speakers. A significant number of scholars (e.g., Honna, 2003; Widdowson, 2003) even believe that English is no longer the sole property of its native speakers. Nevertheless, majority of English language teaching coursebooks are still being published by major Anglo-American publishers and are based on the linguistic norms and cultures of native English speaking countries, mainly the USA and the UK. Inevitably, criticism regarding an accurate presentation of cultural information and images about a variety of norms and cultures beyond the Anglo-Saxon and European world has risen. In fact, the English presented in these coursebooks has been seen as mainly representing the linguistic norms and culture of its native speakers, thereby offering ‘English of Specific Cultures’ . The current discussions on the English language teaching and culture axis, however, make possible an understanding of an English language that has become first international and then global, thereby creating possibilities of portrayal of linguistic norms and cultures of Outer and Expanding circle countries especially through ELT coursebooks. Commissioned as such, then, English can be regarded as a language through which access to Englishes and cultures of the world accompanies its pedagogy, hence ‘ English for Specific Cultures’ (Yano, 2009). Discussing at length the role of English as an International Language and its cultural implications, this article investigates the varieties of Englishes in a series of EIL-based coursebooks, inquiring whether they are based on English of Specific Cultures or English for Specific Cultures.
The response of leaf respiration to water stress in Nothofagus species

Abstract Nothofagus solandri is regarded as more tolerant to drought than Nothofagus menziesii in the field. However, the physiology of responses to water limitation in these species is not well understood. In this study, the thermal sensitivity of leaf respiration and its underlying metabolism in response to drought were investigated in mature trees and saplings. Respiration (R d) and photosynthesis (A max) were measured during drying and re-wetting cycles. In addition, respiratory pathway changes were evaluated by oxygen isotope fractionation and protein analyses. Under drought treatment in the glasshouse, both species showed similar photosynthetic performance, but under mild water stress N. solandri was able to increase A max. Under moderate water deficit (around −2 MPa), N. solandri increased respiration at a base temperature of 10°C (R 10) but then decreased it to initial values after re-watering. In N. menziesii, R 10 did not respond significantly to water-stress treatment. The temperature sensitivity of R d (Q 10 and E o) was unchanged for both species during the gradual deficit water treatment in the glasshouse. Although respiratory electron flow was mainly via the cytochrome pathway under all conditions, an increase in alternative oxidase/cytochrome oxidase protein content suggests that the alternative pathway is involved in modulating respiratory metabolism during the recovery after drought.
Insider Trading and the Long-Run Performance of IPOs

We find significant impact of insider trading activity on the long-run performance of IPOs. We show that, at the aggregate, insiders are net sellers in IPOs that generate positive long-run returns, while they are net buyers in those that underperform. When we analyse individual trades, we find that they adopt contrarian strategies, but their information effectiveness is weak. They buy in underperforming IPOs, but while share prices increase significantly on the announcement date, they become negative in the post trade period. These buy trades are consistent with the price support hypothesis, but, since prices do not revert, their signal is not effective. In contrast, they sell in overperforming IPOs, but the announcement and post-event period are mainly insignificant, suggesting that insiders sell when their IPO reaches its optimal value, and the pre-trade returns drive the excess performance of net sell IPOs. Overall, unlike previous evidence, the direction of stock price reaction to insider trading in IPOs is not consistent with the expected performance, because the valuation uncertainty of IPOs makes the precision of the information content of insider trading weak and the profitability of insiders low. Thus, our results do not support strongly the agency conflict, and the trading on private information hypotheses, and in terms of signalling, insider trades reflect more the past than the future performance.
Optimal Planning of Charging Station for Phased Electric Vehicle

Construction of electric vehicle charging station is the premise of the popularity of electric vehicles. In this paper, electric vehicle charging facilities planning is divided into two stages: public demonstration stage and commercial operation stage. In public demonstration stage, This Paper applies maximal covering model into charging station location, and then be solved by the branch and bound method. In commercial operation stage, the charging station’s service areas division is studied based on Voronoi diagram. With the concerning technical restrains, an optimal planning method is presented for newly-increased station positioning and service region division. The method using the most greatly air circuit method and local dynamic characteristics of Voronoi diagram guarantees the reasonable distribution of stations. Then charging station model of optimal load allocation is established by using M/M/c model. In the end, the correctness and validity of the model is verified through simulation of charging station planning.
Using the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire and the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning in Assessing Motivation and Learning Strategies of Generation 1.5 Korean Immigrant Students

This study examined the potential of utilizing the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) and the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) as instruments in measuring Generation 1.5 students' motivation and their use of language learning strategies. The MSLQ was of particular interest because it contains both a basic motivation subscale as well as a motivation/language learning strategies subscale. Participants of this study were 104 Generation 1.5 Korean immigrant students who were members of Korean communities located in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Participants provided general demographic information and completed both scales in a counterbalanced manner. Results indicated that while the two scales do have some similar content, the scales do not overlap entirely and appeared to measure two discrete indices. Results also indicated that a moderate correlation between MSLQ learning strategies and SILL learning strategies was found as well as between the SILL total score and the MSLQ total score.
Selection strategies of segregant soybean populations for resistance to Asian rust.

O objetivo deste estudo foi identificar as estrategias mais eficientes para selecionar as combinacoes parentais mais promissoras e obter linhas com bom grau de resistencia a ferrugem-asiatica da soja (Phakopsora pachyrhizi). Dois experimentos foram realizados em campo nos anos agricolas 2006/2007 e 2007/2008, para avaliar a percentagem da area foliar infectada em plantas individuais de cinco parentais e das suas populacoes segregantes F2 e F3. Os dados obtidos indicam que a variância genetica aditiva predomina no controle da resistencia da soja a ferrugem-asiatica e que os anos e as epocas de avaliacao nao influenciaram significativamente as estimativas dos parâmetros geneticos obtidos. A herdabilidade no sentido restrito (h2r) variou de 23,12 a 55,83%, o que indica a possibilidade de sucesso com a selecao de individuos resistentes em geracoes precoces nos programas de melhoramento. Todos os procedimentos usados para selecionar as populacoes mais promissoras na geracao de linhagens superiores quanto a resistencia a P. pachyrhizi apresentaram resultados similares e identificaram a populacao BR01-18437 x BRS 232 como a melhor para a selecao de linhagens.
Chicken Breast Meat Marinated with Increasing Levels of Sodium Bicarbonate

The aim of this study was to test the effect of different sodium bicarbonate concentrations on marination performances and meat quality properties. A total of 203 samples were obtained from an homogenous batch of 24 h post mortem chicken breast meat and were subjected to vacuum tumbling in a sodium chloride solution (1.0% wt/w in final product), containing 7 different sodium bicarbonate concentrations from 0 to 0.5%. Meat pH after marination linearly responded with about 0.17 pH unit increase per 0.1% unit addition of bicarbonate. The largest marinade uptake (11.4%) was observed in samples tumbled with 0.30% bicarbonate solution, while the uptake was levelled off, thereafter higher concentrations (0.40 and 0.50%). Cook loss showed a decreasing trend with the increase of bicarbonate level by estimating a 1.8% decrease for 0.10% of bicarbonate addition. Overall appearance of meat was not changed, while the use of sodium bicarbonate was able to improve meat texture by decreasing hardness and chewiness. By using low-resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (LR-NMR) analysis, it was observed that water seemed to exert a plasticizing effect on some biopolymers, so that the total LR-NMR signal fluctuations were not always proportional to the water adsorption. Finally, water gain following marination does not correspond to an increase in the freezable water amount, as detected by differential scanning calorimetry. In conclusion, this study showed that sodium bicarbonate is a superior marinating agent and greater marination performances are obtained when using a concentration no higher than 0.3%.
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION: CASE OF CHASE BANK (KENYA) LIMITED-IN RECEIVERSHIP BY NOELLA ANGELA MUKAMI UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY-AFRICA FALL 2017 CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION: CASE OF CHASE BANK (KENYA) 

iv DEDICATION. vii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS . xi LIST OF TABLES . xii LIST OF FIGURES . xiii CHAPTER ONE . 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION. 1 1.1 Background of the Study . 1 1.2 Statement of the Problem . 4 1.3 Purpose of the Study . 5 1.4 Research Questions . 5 1.5 Significance of the Study . 5 1.6 Scope of the Study . 6 1.7 Definition of Terms . 6 1.8 Chapter Summary . 7 CHAPTER TWO . 8 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW . 8 2.
Mixed chemical-induced oxidative stress in occupational exposure in Nigerians

Exposure to single chemicals and associated disorders in occupational environments has received significant attention. Understanding these events holds great promise for risk identification, assessment and chemical induced disease prevention. Fifty (50) fasting male workers, age range 18-50 years exposed to chemical mixtures in a works department, mean duration 17.7±10.1 years and 30 controls matched for age, diet, sex and other demographic characteristics except exposure to chemicals were selected. Body mass index (BMI), antioxidant status and other biochemical indices including plasma proteins (total protein) and subsets, albumin and total globulins were determined in plasma. The BMI was similar between chemical workers (exposed) and controls (p>0.05). Uric acid level was significantly higher in the exposed than in the controls (p the body chemical burden. Ascorbate was in contrast significantly lower in chemical workers than in controls (p 0.05). Plasma proteins were significantly lower in chemical workers than in controls (p<0.001). Total globulins was significantly reduced in chemical workers (p<0.01). Other variables did not differ significantly. These data are consistent with the existence of oxidative stress in these chemical workers.
LÉVY PROCESSES AND ITÔ–SKOROKHOD INTEGRALS

We study in this work the anticipating integrals with respect to a Lévy process. The anticipating integral on the Wiener space, known in general as the Skorokhod integral (and sometimes as the Hitsuda integral), constitutes an extension of the standard Itô integral to non-adapted integrands. It is nothing else than the classical Itô integral if the integrand is adapted. The Skorokhod integral has been extended to the Poisson process, and next it has been defined with respect to a normal martingale (see [3]) due to the Fock space structure generated by such processes. Recently, an anticipating calculus of the Malliavin-type has been defined on Lévy spaces again by using some multiple stochastic integrals with respect to a Lévy process which have been defined, in essence, in the old paper by K. Itô (see [4]). We refer to [8], [9], or [13] for the Malliavin calculus on Lévy spaces and possible applications to mathematical finance. The purpose of this paper is to understand the relation between anticipating Skorokhod integral processes and Itô-Skorokhod integral processes (in the sense of [14] or [11]) in the Lévy case. We recall that the results in [14] and [11] show that, on Wiener and Poisson spaces, the class of Skorokhod integral processes with regular enough integrands coincides with the class of some Itô-Skorokhod integrals that have similar properties to the classical Itô integrals for martingales. The fact that the driven processes have independent increments plays a crucial role. Therefore, it is expected to obtain the same type of results for Lévy processes. We prove here an equivalence between Skorokhod and Itô-Skorokhod integrals by using the recently introduced Malliavin calculus for Lévy processes. Some direct consequences of the equivalence between the two classes of stochastic processes are also obtained. Section 2 contains some preliminaries on Lévy processes and the Malliavin-Skorokhod calculus with respect to them. In Section 3, we prove a generalized Clark-Ocone formula that we will use in Section 4 to prove the correspondence between Skorokhod and ItôSkorokhod integrals and to develop an Itô-type calculus for the anticipating integrals on Lévy spaces.
The Impact of Group Contract and Governance Structure on Performance—Evidence from College Classrooms

In this article, we empirically analyze the effect of team characteristics on a team’s choice of group contract type (its governance structure) and examine the combined impact of team characteristics and the group contract choice on group and individual performance in a classroom setting. We utilize endogenous dummy variable models in both group-level and individual-level analyses due to the expected endogeneity of the contract choice. The estimation results confirm a statistically significant positive effect of a governance structure, democratic contract that includes a mechanism to punish free-riders on both group and individual performance. We also estimate switching regression models to account for the possible heterogeneous treatment effects but do not find any significant difference between the treated and the nontreated in the effect of the democratic contract option implying that the contract choice is not necessarily motivated by its performance-enhancing effect. (JEL D70, D86, I23)
Artificial primary marine aerosol production: a laboratory study with varying water temperature, salinity, and succinic acid concentration

Primary marine aerosols are an important compo- nent of the climate system, especially in the remote marine environment. With diminishing sea-ice cover, better under- standing of the role of sea spray aerosol on climate in the polar regions is required. As for Arctic Ocean water, labora- tory experiments with NaCl water confirm that a few degrees change in the water temperature (Tw) gives a large change in the number of primary particles. Small particles with a dry diameter between 0.01 µm and 0.25 µm dominate the aerosol number density, but their relative dominance decreases with increasing water temperature from 0 C where they repre- sent 85-90 % of the total aerosol number to 10 C, where they represent 60-70 % of the total aerosol number. This ef- fect is most likely related to a change in physical properties and not to modification of sea water chemistry. A change of salinity between 15 g kg 1 and 35 g kg 1 did not influence the shape of a particle number size distribution. Although the magnitude of the size distribution for a water tempera- ture change between 0 C and 16 C changed, the shape did not. An experiment where succinic acid was added to a NaCl water solution showed, that the number concentration of par- ticles with 0.010 µm<Dp< 4.5 µm decreased on average by 10 % when the succinic acid concentration in NaCl water at a water temperature of 0 C was increased from 0 µmol L 1 to 94 µmol L 1 . A shift to larger sizes in the particle number size distribution is observed from pure NaCl water to Arctic Ocean water. This is likely a consequence of organics and different inorganic salts present in Arctic Ocean water in ad- dition to the NaCl.
PROLIFERATION AND SHOOT RECOVERY AMONG THE EAST AFRICAN HIGHLAND BANANA

Production of East African highland banana (EA-AAA banana) (Musa spp.) is limited by scarcity of planting materials, attributable to their low natural proliferation ability. Under natural field conditions, the EA-AAA bananas greatly differ in suckering ability. In vitro micropropagation has been adopted as an alternative means for production of banana planting materials. In this study, the in vitro proliferation potential of seven EA-AAA banana cultivars, with different suckering ability was determined on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium, to enhance development of micropropagation protocols for their multiplication. Commonly cultivated non EAAAA banana cultivars were used to compare proliferation of the seven EA-AAA cultivars. There was a wide variation in the number and morphology of shoots and buds produced by the different cultivars. The EA-AAA banana cultivars produced 3-4 new shoots in each subculture cycle, and 57-169 recoverable shoots from one starting shoot-tip explant in 18 weeks. Non-EA-AAA banana cultivars, namely Sukali Ndizi (AAB) and Yangambi Km5 (AAA), showed higher proliferation levels, 5 and 9 shoots, from each subculture cycle and 322 and 352 recoverable shoots, respectively. The EA-AAA banana cultivars showed higher efficiency to produce recoverable shoots from shoot buds (53 66% except for cv. Kabula at 36%) compared to Sukali Ndizi (52%) and Yangambi Km5 (32%). The study demonstrates the potential of in vitro approach for production of banana planting materials. In vitro proliferation ability and in particualr efficiency to produce recoverable shoots of the different EA-AAA banana cultivars could be improved by varying the culture conditions during the subsequent subculture cycles.
The scope, development and the characteristics of expertise in sports coaching context

The aim of this study is to explain the scope, development and the characteristic of expertise in sport coaching context. We also aimed to put forward some features that coaches should have. Relevant literature was reviewed for the purposes of this study. Expertise in sport coaching context is crucial for effectiveness of sports coaches therefore it is necessary to address all aspects of expertise and features of expert coaches in order to contribute to development of sports coaching. The results of our review showed that expertise includes years of experience and numerous qualities that expert coaches have. Expert sports coaches have some essential characteristics and these characteristics develop by experience and knowledge. We also listed some useful suggestions and key points for coaches as the part of the results.
Quality of yellow passion fruit juice with cultivation using different organic sources and saline water

ABSTRACT The experiment was conducted in field in the municipaly Remigio, state of the Paraiba, Brazil, to evaluate the effects of the use of saline water for irrigation, bovine biofertilizer and mulch on the chemical characteristics of the fruits of yellow passion fruit. The experimental design was completely randomized in a factorial 2 x 2 x 2, three replications and three plants per experimental unit. Study material consisted of irrigation with water is not saline (0.50 dS m –1 ) and saline (4.50 dS m –1 ), with and without application of bovine biofertilizer, with and without mulch. The use of bovine biofertilizer reduced the negative action of the salts, increasing the pH, soluble solids and vitamin C in fruits of yellow passion fruit. The veal and mulching biofertilizer did not affect the titratable acidity values in passion fruit with an increased salt content of water. The content of vitamin C in fruits did not change with the use of mulch and biofertilizer veal. The ratio soluble solids / acidity of the passion fruit was reduced with the use of organic inputs and soil cover by applying saline water for irrigation of plants. The increasing salinity of irrigation water increased the electrical conductivity of the juice, regardless of the application of fertilizer and use of mulch.