Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Heritability of dietary fiber content and grain yield in common bean populations

The objective of this study was to estimate the heritability and gain from selection of dietary fiber content (soluble, insoluble and total) and grain yield, in populations obtained from five different crossings, and to identify more adequate population considering different fraction fibers. Crossings were performed in greenhouse among the genitors CNFP 8100, FT 96-1282, Varre-Sai and Valente. The populations obtained (parents, F1 and F2) were assessed in the field during spring/summer of 2003/2004, using a randomized complete blocks experimental design. Significant differences were obtained for total dietary fiber, however no genetic variability was observed for soluble and insoluble dietary fiber and grain yield in populations. Positive phenotypic correlation between insoluble and total dietary fiber was observed. F2 selection plants in segregant population, developed from Valente x Varre-Sai, can be effective in the development of bean germplasm with higher total dietary fiber, because of the high broad-sense heritability estimates and highest gain from selection obtained in the combination.
The Agnes Rainstorm of June 1972: Surface Feature Evolution Culminating in Inland Storm Redevelopment

Abstract The passage of Tropical Storm Agnes through the eastern United States on 21–23 June 1972 was marked by a swath of exceptionally heavy rainfall amounting to 15–35 cm. The heaviest rains fell in a narrow band from eastern Virginia northward through the Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania along and to the west of a slow-moving frontal boundary. The frontal boundary formed in situ to the east of the Appalachian Mountains on 21 June as warm, moist air ahead of Agnes from the Atlantic was drawn westward against somewhat cooler air along the eastern slopes of the mountains. Air was forced to flow down the pressure gradient east of the Appalachians, analogous to cold air damming situations, with comparatively low pressure along the coast. The north-south frontal zone marked the transition region between the two regimes. An analysis of all available surface observations disclosed that this boundary marked a locus of frontogenesis, moisture convergence, and cyclonic vorticity generation. The frontal boundar.
Epidemiology of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized with attention deficits, hyperactivity, or impulsiveness. The preva‐ lence of ADHD varies from country to country and from various cultural and geo‐ graphical zones. The pattern and distribution of ADHD also vary with gender and age. It has also been noted that some factors are associated with ADHD. For in‐ stance, some central nervous system anomalies had been associated with ADHD. Genetic and environmental risk factors have also been implicated. Some conduct and learning disorders have also been associated with ADHD. Of recent, some car‐ diac anomalies and behavioral disorders such as enuresis and encopresis have all been associated with children with ADHD. Conclusion: Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a neuropsychiatric disorder, varies in prevalence from one country to another with several associations.
Groß Simulation of nonadiabatic processes on surfaces

A simple one dimensional two state model for the laser induced desorption and the desorption of NO from a NiO(100) surface are investigated. This is done by utilising a mixed quantum classical algorithm derived from generalised surface hopping [1]. The algorithm used is a surface hopping method with optical potentials describing the electronic excitation and de-excitation processes. The simple model is used to explore the dependence of the desorption probability on the potential parameters. We show that the critical parameters are the lifetime, the separation of the minima and the width of the excited state potential. For the NO/ NiO(100) system the electronic states taken into account are the ground state and one charge transfer state. The corresponding forces used in the dynamic simulation are based on two dimensional ab initio potentials, calculated by Klüner et al. [2]. These were extended by simple models to a full description of the desorbing molecule together with one surface coordinate. In the simulations two species of desorbing molecules are found, one with early and the other with late desorption times. The second species accounts for most of the difference in desorption yield found when comparing the mixed quantum classical simulation to the wave packet results in [3]. When investigating the effect of additional degrees of freedom on the dynamics we find the surface oscillator to be the most decisive one, slowing down the early desorbing molecules and lowering the rotational temperature of the desorbed molecules substantially.
E-learning, M-learning and D-learning: Conceptual definition and comparative analysis

In the 21st century, the information and communication technology explosion increases the uses of digital devices for many purposes in the world of work and in formal and non-formal education. This study analyzes existing literature on the basis of the definition of the concepts, terminology used, differences, fundamental perspectives, benefits, disadvantages, and finally the similarities and differences of the e-learning (electronic learning), m-learning (mobile learning), and d-learning (digital learning). It reveals that e-learning and m-learning are subsets of d-learning. On the other hand, some learning tools could be considered as m-learning as well as e-learning.
Positioning Male Teachers In the Foundation Phase In South Africa: A Case of One Education District

Observation and literature confirmed that men are unduly scarce in the count of foundation phase teachers in South Africa and the few that are presented as foundation phase teachers are often criticized and ridiculed with the argument that foundation phase teaching is for women. Therefore, the study sought to understand gendered ideologies in order to address the issue of missing male teachers in the foundation phase, which is currently considered to be feminized. Using Sandra Bem’s Gender Schema Theory, the study explores the perceptions embedded within gender issues and how these influence the appointment of male teachers in the foundation phase in the Amathole Education District of the Eastern Cape Province. A qualitative approach was adopted, and a case study research design was employed where six participants (three males and three females) were purposely sampled and interviewed. Data were analyzed using content analyses where some themes emerged. The study revealed that most males are unwilling to work with younger kids, while the study also confirms their roles as very important in the development of younger kids. The study concludes that male teachers’ positive influence cannot be underestimated; hence the government should devise a way to motivate male teacher educators toward the world of work in the foundation phase.
Escherichia coli: Animal Foods and Public Health-Review

Accepted: 29/12/2014 Abstract Foodborne diseases are a growing public health problem all over the world. E. coli is one of the three major food-borne bacterial targets apart from Salmonella spp. and Campylobacter spp. Majority of the E. coli are non-pathogenic; however, few of them are major food borne pathogen of public health significance. The pathogenic E. coli are responsible for watery and bloody diarrhoea, infantile diarrhoea, traveler’s diarrhoea, hemorrhagic colitis, hemolytic uremic syndrome in man. There had been a very rapid development in the detection of various pathogenic microorganisms present in the food and are based on cultural, biochemical and latest DNA based molecular techniques such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay. Further, indiscriminate uses of antibiotics in food animals results in resistance in micro-organisms. Antibiotic usage is considered the most important factor promoting the emergence, selection and dissemination of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms in both veterinary and human medicine. Thus, besides judicious use of antibiotics in food animals, there is an urgent need to identify and evaluate the natural food grade antimicrobials that can have potential for the future application to inhibit the growth of pathogenic microorganisms, to protect the consumer from foodborne illness and to extend the shelf life of foods with minimum quality loss. This is essential to give to the consumer and to ensure that the product is free from pathogenic microorganisms is of utmost importance to promote the consumption of products in domestic and export markets. In this review, E. coli in animal foods, their public health significance, their characteristics, serotyping and prevalence, antibiotic resistance pattern, plasmid and hemolysin profile and molecular diagnosis was discussed along with their control.
Quantum gravity with torsion and non-metricity

We study the renormalization of theories of gravity with an arbitrary (torsional and non-metric) connection. The class of actions we consider is of the Palatini type, including the most general terms with up to two derivatives of the metric, but no derivatives of the connection. It contains 19 independent parameters. We calculate the one-loop beta functions of these parameters and find their fixed points. The Holst subspace is discussed in some detail and found not to be stable under renormalization. Some possible implications for ultraviolet and infrared gravity are discussed.
Microsporidian Multiplication and Spore Production in Various Tissues of Pupa and Adult, in Relation to Age and Development of Silkworm, Bombyx mori L.(Lepidoptera: Bombycidae)

Multiplication and spore production of three microsporidia(Nosema bombycis, Nosema sp. 1 and Nosema sp. 2) in selected tissues of pupa and adult of silkworm, Bombyx mori L. were studied in two seasons (SI, SII) with distinct temperature (SI: and SII: ) regimes. Multiplication of the microsporidia followed a logistic pattern with a lag phase, an exponential phase and a stationary phase. In SII, spore production was significantly (P days p.i. Spore production was significantly (P
A Young Disabled LGBT+ Researchers Group: Working Collaboratively to Explore the Lives of Young Autistic LGBT+ Persons

This article explores setting up a research group and outlines how we work together. The goal of the research group is to work collaboratively to conduct research on aspects of life for young disabled LGBT+ people that we think need more research. We hope to outline the aim of the group and what we want to achieve. It will also discuss our research principles and how we have conducted research together. We hope that the article provides insight on how to set up collaborative groups, how to work together, and what such groups can achieve. This article has been written collaboratively and this is reflected throughout.
Learned Video Compression With Residual Prediction And Feature-Aided Loop Filter

In this paper, we propose a learned video codec with a residual prediction network (RP-Net) and a feature-aided loop filter (LF-Net). For the RP-Net, we exploit the residual of previous multiple frames to further eliminate the redundancy of the current frame residual. For the LF-Net, the features from residual decoding network and the motion compensation network are used to aid the reconstruction quality. To reduce the complexity, a light ResNet structure is used as the backbone for both RP-Net and LF-Net. Experimental results illustrate that we can save about 10% BD-rate compared with previous learned video compression frameworks. Moreover, we can achieve faster coding speed due to the ResNet backbone.
Effectiveness of Physical Exercise Interventions on Pulmonary Function and Physical Fitness in Children and Adults with Cystic Fibrosis: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis

Objective: Physical exercise is associated with several benefits in the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF), associated with a reduction in patient mortality. The aim of this systematic review was to determine the effectiveness of exercise interventions on physical condition and lung function in children and adults with CF to establish the most appropriate type and dose of physical exercise used so far. Methods: The studies included were randomized controlled trials with physical exercise interventions performed with children or adults with CF, analyzing the effects on pulmonary function, cardiorespiratory capacity, and muscle strength. The variables analyzed in at least four studies in the same population (children or adults) with the same measuring test were included in the meta-analysis. Results: Pulmonary function: There were no changes in the forced expiratory volume 1 s, but mouth expiratory/inspiratory pressures were improved in some studies. Physical fitness: In children, the interventions did not manage to improve the VO2peak (SMD = 0.22; 95%CI: −0.25 to 0.68; p = 0.73) but improved muscle strength. In adults, physical exercise interventions based on high-intensity aerobic training showed positive results in the VO2peak, and in some muscle strength outcomes. Conclusions: Exercise interventions in children and adults with CF are effective in improving muscle strength, cardiovascular capacity, and respiratory muscle function. However, they do not achieve improvements in lung function. The most effective programs are those using strength training or cardiovascular high-intensity interval training, although to date there have been few such interventions.
The Implementation of Ability Grouping in English Classroom in SMKNegeri 1 Singosari

This qualitative study is intended to describe the implementation of ability grouping in English classes in SMKN 1 Malang. The result shows that ability grouping aimed at improving English teaching and students’ English competence, a writing test was used as the placement test, the ability grouping was divided into four sessions, the language skills were taught separately, the course design was the same across levels, the activities in ability grouping were similar to those in non ability grouping classes, but various treatment was given based on the students’ characteristic in each level, and the students responded positively to ability grouping.
Assessing a Policy Grab Bag: Federal Water Policy Reform

This article examines the economic impacts of policy alternatives for addressing allocative inefficiencies among agricultural, urban, and environmental uses of federal water. The Central Valley Project Improvement Act, composed of multiple incentive-based and command-and-control policies, forms the context for this analysis. Estimated multi-output agricultural revenue functions and urban water demand functions are incorporated into a nonlinear programming model designed to predict changes in water use, returns to agriculture, and urban consumer surplus. Results suggest that analysis that does not explicitly model policy instruments implemented at sub-optimal levels and, as part of a package of reforms, could over- or underestimate the costs, benefits, and effectiveness of each policy instrument. Copyright 2002, Oxford University Press.
The Role of Cross-Cue Reactivity in Coexisting Smoking and Gambling Habits

Cigarette smoking is the most common addictive behaviour co-occurring with problem gambling. Based on classical conditioning, smoking and gambling cues may acquire conditioned stimulus properties that elicit cravings for both behaviours. This study examined cross-cue reactivity in 75 men who were regular smokers, poker players or cigarette-smoking poker players. Participants were exposed to discrete cigarette, poker and neutral cues while skin conductance and psychological urges to smoke and gamble were measured. Results showed evidence of cross-cue reactivity based on skin conductance, and subjective response to smoking cues; subjective response to gambling cues was less clear. Smoking gamblers showed greater skin conductance reactivity to cues, and stronger subjective urges to smoke to smoking and gambling cues, compared to individuals who only smoked or only gambled. This study demonstrates evidence for cross-cue reactivity between a substance and a behavioural addiction, and the results encourage further research.
Examining the Attentional and Behavioral Factors Associated with Escalation in Web Health Searches.

ZIELINSKA, OLGA ANNA. Examining the Attentional and Behavioral Factors Associated with Escalation in Web Health Searches. (Under the direction of Dr. Christopher B. Mayhorn). Health information seeking is a behavior used to understand health threats and evaluate options to cope with potential conditions. Seventy-two percent of Internet users have searched for health information online with the majority of Internet users admitting to searching for health information that is more serious than what they initially searched. Previous research has suggested that users escalate due to health anxiety exacerbated by exposure to Internet based information, otherwise known as cyberchondria; however, it is unlikely that a large majority of Internet users suffer from cyberchondria. Other theories suggest that users may be reviewing serious condition content because they are curious or interested in learning about the condition. The following four studies investigated attentional and behavioral factors that portray escalation behavior during an Internet search for health information through three factors. First, the attentional capture of medical terminology was evaluated in Studies 1 and 2 to investigate if certain medical terms are more salient than others. Next, users’ selection of conditions was assessed in Study 3 to see if there is a difference in the number of serious or benign conditions that users chose to review. Finally, user recognition and recall of medical webpage content was measured in Study 4 to understand what information is being encoded from the Internet search. Overall, three main conclusions were drawn. The first major finding was that serious conditions capture attention faster than benign ones; however, this is only when presented in a health web search context. Second, participants typically select benign conditions more often than serious ones to assess; however, the reasoning for selecting benign conditions as opposed to serious conditions is different. Benign conditions are typically selected as possible diagnoses, while serious conditions are selected because participants are curious and would like to learn more. Finally, after reviewing a webpage for one minute, participants are able to freely recall more serious conditions than benign ones and falsely recognized serious conditions as being present on the search results page even when they were not. By understanding this knowledge of the medical search process from start to finish, we can inform web page design and how to structure medical information appropriately to direct their attention away or towards certain information.
Galois orbits and equidistribution of special subvarieties: towards the André-Oort conjecture

In this paper we develop a strategy and some technical tools for proving the Andr e-Oort conjecture. We give lower bounds for the degrees of Galois orbits of geometric components of special subvarieties of Shimura varieties, assuming the Generalised Riemann Hypothesis. We proceed to show that sequences of special subvarieties whose Galois orbits have bounded degrees are equidistributed in a suitable sense.
Optical Properties of 2D Micro- and Nanostructures of ZnO:K

ZnO nano- and microstructures doped with K were grown by the Vapor–Solid method. Wires and needles are the main morphology observed, although some structures in the form of ribbons and triangular plates were also obtained. Besides these, ball-shaped structures which grow around a central wire were also detected. Raman and cathodoluminescence investigations suggest that variations in morphology, crystalline quality and luminescence emissions are related to the different lattice positions that K occupies depending on its concentration in the structures. When the amount is low, K ions mainly incorporate as interstitials (Ki), whereas K occupies substitutional positions of Zn (KZn) when the amount of K is increased. Electron Backscattered Diffraction shows that ribbons and triangular plates are oriented in the (0001) direction, which indicates that the growth of this type of morphologies is related to distortions introduced by the Ki since this position favors the growth in the (0001) plane. In the case of the ball-shaped structures, the compositional analysis and Raman spectra show that they consist of K2SO4. Finally, the capability of the elongated structures to act as waveguides and optical resonators was investigated. Due to the size of the K ion, practically double that of the Zn, and the different positions it can adopt within the ZnO lattice (Ki or KZn), high distortions are introduced that compromise the resonators performance. Despite this, quality factor (Q) and fineness (F) show acceptable values (80 and 10 at 544 nm, respectively), although smaller than those reported for doping with smaller size alkali, such as Li.
A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage

Purpose Over 200,000 young people in the UK embark on a smoking career annually, thus continued effort is required to understand the types of interventions that are most effective in changing perceptions about smoking amongst teenagers. Several authors have proposed the use of social norms programmes, where correcting misconceptions of what is considered normal behaviour lead to improved behaviours. There are a limited number of studies showing the effectiveness of such programmes for changing teenagers’ perception of smoking habits, and hence this paper reports on the results from one of the largest social norms programmes that used a variety of interventions aimed at improving teenagers’ perceptions of smoking. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach A range of interventions were adopted for 57 programmes in year nine students, ranging from passive interventions such as posters and banners to active interventions such as student apps and enterprise days. Each programme consisted of a baseline survey followed by interventions and a repeat survey to calculate the change in perception. A clustering algorithm was also used to reveal the impact of combinations of interventions. Findings The study reveals three main findings: the use of social norms is an effective means of changing perceptions, the level of interventions and change in perceptions are positively correlated, and that the most effective combinations of interventions include the use of interactive feedback assemblies, enterprise days, parent and student apps and newsletters to parents. Originality/value The paper presents results from one of the largest social norm programmes aimed at improving young people’s perceptions and the first to use clustering methods to reveal the impact of combinations of intervention.
Who Gets Ahead? A Meta-Analysis of Self-Monitoring and Status Criteria

Status has major implications for success in social and organizational hierarchies. Accordingly, researchers have shown great interest in the dispositional antecedents of attaining status. Among antecedents, self-monitoring has been theoretically linked to concerns for and ability to cultivate status, but linkages have never been quantitatively reviewed. We introduce a new organizational framework for status criteria, and then use meta-analysis to examine self-monitoring’s criterion-oriented validity for status criteria, its nomological network to other dispositional antecedents of status, and its incremental validity over these other antecedents. We also conduct scale-specific moderator analyses. Overall, self- monitoring shows criterion-oriented validity for status criteria, good discriminant validity to other dispositional antecedents of status, and incremental validity for most criteria examined. We discuss implications of our findings for assessment and theory, and recommend two new research directio.