Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Nematicidal Activity of Some Fluorescent Pseudomonads on Cyst Forming Nematode, Heterodera cajani and Growth of Sesamum indicum var. RT1

Among 24 isolates of fluorescent Pseudomonads, 5 isolates named as LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4 and LPT5 were screened in vitro for their nematicidal activity against cyst forming nematode, Heterodera cajani causing patchiness, poor and stunting growth besides discoloration in Sesamum indicum. Second stage juveniles of H. cajani hatched from egg masses were collected from roots of host plant and subjected to fresh and heat-treated culture filtrate of isolates for 24 h. Mortality of H. cajani was recorded on the basis of parameters used for test organism bioassay. Among these isolates, Pseudomonas aeruginosa LPT5 caused maximum mortality towards second stage juvenile of H. cajani in vitro. Five isolates were used as seed coating for the management of cyst forming nematode H. cajani on sesame in green house condition. The strains LPT5 was better than the other strains in reducing the population of H. cajani both in vitro and in vivo. The reduction in cyst and juveniles population was found to be 49 and 60%, respectively when seeds were coated with strain LPT5. Among other strains, LPT4 was also found to inhibit the cyst and juveniles population 12 and 36% respectively. Increases in early vegetative plant growth parameters recorded in both in vitro and in vivo further revealed the significance of indigenous bacteria in comparison to introduced strain.
The interplay of trustworthiness and perceived risk and their influence on consumer’s acceptance of self-service technology innovations: the case of Digipost by Posten Norge AS

This paper looks at factors influencing consumer’s attitude formation in the light of adopting a new self-service technology (SST). Previous research has shed light on the importance of trustworthiness and risk, however, the literature does not account for the multidimensionality of these constructs or lacks understanding of how they operate on different levels. Similarly, self-efficacy was previously found to be an important antecedent for attitude formation towards SST, but is rarely included in the analysis. To bridge this gap, we examine data on a sample of Norwegian consumers and their attitude towards Digipost, the digital mailbox service of Posten Norge. We test direct effects of different dimensions of trustworthiness, perceived risk and selfefficacy on attitude towards the SST innovation. The results suggest that all factors contribute to attitude formation towards SST in some way, with time risk exhibiting the strongest influence. Managers are therefore recommended to place particular emphasis on controlling for the differences the antecedents that cause resistance in adapting SST innovations.
Factors affecting pre-weaning body weights and growth rates in crossbred pigs.

Data pertaining to the pre-weaning body weights and average daily gains of 2909 piglets belonging to two crossbred (50% and 75% LWY-Desi) genetic groups were analyzed. Genetic group, period and season of birth and LSB in general, affected all the body weights highly significantly. The overall least-squares mean body weights were 1.11 ± 0.01, 2.16 ± 0.01, 3.20 ± 0.02, 4.32 ± 0.02, 5.44 ± 0.03, 6.52 ± 0.04, 7.65 ± 0.04, 8.79 ± 0.05 and 10.13 ± 0.06 kg at birth, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 weeks age, respectively. The overall least squares mean ADGs during 0 and 1, 1 and 2, 2 and 3, 3 and 4, 4 and 5, 5 and 6, 6 and 7, 7 and 8 and birth and 8 weeks were 0.149 ± 0.002, 0.148 ± 0.002, 0.158 ± 0.002, 0.161 ± 0.002, 0.154 ± 0.002, 0.161 ± 0.002, 0.165 ± 0.003, 0.191 ± 0.003 and 0.161 ± 0.001 kg, respectively. Genetic and phenotypic correlations among body weights were mostly positive and medium to high. Correlations among average daily gains were very low and without any trend.
Pilot study on individual dose-response relationship evaluated through otoacoustic emission measurements in controlled noise exposure: influence of circadian rhythm

Over 22 million of North American workers are exposed daily to noise doses that may induce hearing loss. Unfortunately, current practices to prevent occupational noise-induced hearing loss ( NIHL ) based on group average of exposure/damage relationships do not account for the individual’s susceptibility. Consequently, NIHL remains one of the biggest cause of invalidity and indemnity in North America. To improve hearing conservation in the workplace, a procedure to continuously measure hearing fatigue using otoacoustic emissions ( OAE ) has been developed using a portable and robust OAE system designed for noisy field use. A pilot study has been conducted on human subjects in laboratory, playing back pre -recorded noise samples at realistic levels while recording the accumulated individual noise dose. To monitor the temporary effects (response) on the individuals’ inner-ear during the exposure, OAEs were measured periodically on subjects using either the designed OAE system or a reference OAE system. Audiometric thresholds, stapedius and medial olivocochlear reflex were also measured pre and post-exposure to monitor other potential effects on hearing. The potential effects of circadian rhythm on pre and post-exposure measurements are briefly studied here.
3 D-QSAR and Docking Studies of a Series of β-Carboline Derivatives as Antitumor Agents of PLK 1

An alignment-free, three dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR) analysis has been performed on a series of β-carboline derivatives as potent antitumor agents toward HepG2 human tumor cell lines. A highly descriptive and predictive 3D-QSAR model was obtained through the calculation of alignment-independent descriptors (GRIND descriptors) using ALMOND software. For a training set of 30 compounds, PLS analyses result in a three-component model which displays a squared correlation coefficient (r) of 0.957 and a standard deviation of the error of calculation (SDEC) of 0.116. Validation of this model was performed using leave-one-out, q2 loo of 0.85, and leave-multiple-out.This model gives a remarkably high r 2 pred(0.66) for a test set of 10 compounds. Docking studies were performed to investigate the mode of interaction between β-carboline derivatives and the active site of the most probable anticancer receptor, polo-like kinase protein.
The Effect of Critical Thinking Induced by Reading Prior to Cognitive Testing

Various aspects of individuals’ lives have an impact on their cognitive functioning, which affects the scores that each person obtains during cognitive examination. Long-term conditions such as culture, age and location as well as shorter duration stimuli such as fatigue, familiarity and exercise have been shown to influence the outcome of cognitive testing. The current study examined the effect of critical and casual reading on the immediate verbal comprehension test scores of participants using questions from Graduate Record Examination (GRE) practice booklets. It was predicted that the practice GRE exam scores of the participants who were asked to concentrate on an excerpt to induce critical thinking were expected to be higher than those who were told to simply read through a less rigorous work. The scores of the control group were also expected to be significantly lower than those of the “reading” groups. Though results indicated that this hypothesis could not be supported by the data set, further research concerning the effects of reading in both clinical and nonclinical settings is advised. Effect of Reading on Cognitive Testing 4
EVALUATION OF GROWTH AND YIELD PERFORMANCE ON INOCULATED CHILI PEPPER HYBRIDS BY CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS

Tolerance cultivar is a best control measure to reduce losses due to virus attack in the field. Study on growth and yield of new cultivars compared to the commercial ones is an important step in cultivar development. The objective of this research was to evaluate growth and yield performance of inoculated new chilli pepper hybrids by Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV) compared to a commercial and similar fruit size one. Twelve new hybrids and one commercial hybrid cultivar 'Prada', as a control, were evaluated in a completely randomized design with 3 replications. In the greenhouse experiment, H23 and H20 showed better vegetative growth compared to the other hybrids and control. Hybrid H17 showed the highest yield, followed by H5, H4 and H6 hybrids.
Exciton and trion dynamics in atomically thin MoSe2 and WSe2: Effect of localization

We present a detailed investigation of the exciton and trion dynamics in naturally doped ${\mathrm{MoSe}}_{2}$ and ${\mathrm{WSe}}_{2}$ single atomic layers as a function of temperature in the range 10--300 K under above band-gap laser excitation. By combining time-integrated and time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy, we show the importance of exciton and trion localization in both materials at low temperatures. We also reveal the transition to delocalized exciton complexes at higher temperatures where the exciton and trion thermal energy exceeds the typical localization energy. This is accompanied by strong changes in PL including suppression of the trion PL and decrease of the trion PL lifetime, as well as significant changes for neutral excitons in the temperature dependence of the PL intensity and the appearance of a pronounced slow PL decay component. In ${\mathrm{MoSe}}_{2}$ and ${\mathrm{WSe}}_{2}$ studied here, the temperatures where such strong changes occur are observed at around 100 and 200 K, respectively, in agreement with their inhomogeneous PL linewidth of 8 and 20 meV at $T\ensuremath{\approx}10\phantom{\rule{4.pt}{0ex}}\text{K}$. The observed behavior is a result of a complex interplay between influences of the specific energy ordering of bright and dark excitons in ${\mathrm{MoSe}}_{2}$ and ${\mathrm{WSe}}_{2}$, sample doping, trion, and exciton localization and various temperature-dependent nonradiative processes.
Heat Storage in Urban Areas: Local-Scale Observations and Evaluation of a Simple Model

The flux density of sensible heat to or from storage in the physical mass of the city is determined for seven cities (Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; Mexico City, Distrito Federal; Miami, Florida; Sacramento, California; Tucson, Arizona; and Vancouver, British Columbia) in North America across a 308 latitudinal range. These cities have a variety of synoptic-scale climates and surface cover and structural morphologies. In all cases the ‘‘measured’’ storage heat flux is determined as the energy balance residual from direct observations of net all-wave radiation, and sensible and latent heat fluxes conducted using the same radiometer and eddy correlation techniques. Databases describing the surface characteristics around each site are developed from analysis of aerial photography and field surveys. Results indicate that storage heat flux is a significant component of the surface energy balance at all sites and is greatest at downtown and light industrial sites. Hysteresis behavior, of varying degrees, is seen at all locations. A simple objective hysteresis model (OHM), which calculates storage heat flux as a function of net all-wave radiation and the surface properties of the site, is found to perform well in the mean for most cases, with the notable exception of Tucson; but considerable scatter is observed at some sites. Some of this is attributed to the moisture, wind, and synoptic controls at each of the sites, and to hour-to-hour variability in the convective fluxes that the OHM does not simulate. Averaging over 2 to 3 h may be a more appropriate way to use the model. Caution should be used when employing the OHM in windy environments.
Identifying causes of dropout through longitudinal quantitative analysis in rural Cambodian basic schools

Dropout constitutes a chief obstacle to EFA in many developing countries including Cambodia. To prevent dropout, it is important to identify the reasons why children leave school. So far, much research has been conducted on the causes of school dropout mainly by asking stakeholders, especially dropped-out students and their parents to state their personal reasons why children are not in school. Unlike most of the previous studies, this study, in order to find out reasons more objectively and accurately, employed a longitudinal quantitative analysis. The study was conducted in five primary schools and five lower secondary schools in rural parts of Kampong Cham Province. The result of the follow-up study of three cohort groups showed that late school entry, repetition and low achievement were the main causes of dropout throughout the grades. To belong to some schools was another factor that influences student dropout decision. On the other hand, poverty which was mentioned as the main cause of dropout in many studies in Cambodia was found insignificant in this study.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AS A PREDICTOR OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AMONG COLLEGE TEACHERS

The present study was intended to investigate the Emotional intelligence as a predictor of organizational commitment among college teachers of Lahore, Punjab Pakistan. The populations for the present study were all the male and female college teachers of District Lahore. Random and convenient sampling technique was applied to select the sample for conducting this study because of the time constraint. Sample include of twenty (20) colleges which were selected. Ten male and ten female colleges were selected from location. The sample consists of 716 teachers (324 males and 392 females) who were recently teaching as regular teachers in different colleges of Lahore were selected. Data was collected by Self Report Emotional Intelligence Test, consist of 30 items, Job Satisfaction Scale consist of 16 items, Allen & Meyer, 1990 Scale of Turnover Intentions that consist of 08 items and Mowday, Stress and Porter Scale of Organization Commitment (1979) that consist of 15 items. Findings of the study show that there is a significant difference in emotional intelligence (EI) between male and female college teachers. Male teachers have a significantly higher emotional intelligence (M=2.3059, SD=19.37687) than females respondents (M=2.2722, SD=2.3059), not significant difference between all male and female college teachers of Dist. Lahore, and male teachers (M=54.0062, SD=6.21194) and females teachers (M=54.2577, SD=5.90959) have about same job satisfaction, no significant difference between all male and female college teacher. Females teachers (M=27.8724, SD=3.81263) have about same turnover intentions by gender, male college (M=50.8519, SD=6.14855) and female college teachers (M=50.9158, SD=5.74528) have about same Organizational Commitment (OC) by Gender. There was statistically significant difference, t (716) =138.430, p<. 001 between emotional intelligence (M=96.0098, SD= 7.88705) and job satisfactions (M=54.1439, SD= 6.04530). It means that job satisfaction has less to do with emotional intelligence to become predictor of organizational commitment, people with high emotional intelligence retain less level of turnover intentions, job satisfaction contributes more to emotional intelligence as compared to turnover intentions, those who are committed to the organization also retain moderate level of job satisfaction, those who possess more organization commitment are less prone to turnover intentions and there was statistically significance difference t (716) =148.428, p<. 001 between emotional intelligence (M=54.0098, SD= 7.88705) and organization commitment (M=50.8869, SD= 5.92704). The result of study reveals that emotional intelligence contributes to organizational commitment moderately. Article visualizations:
Equatorial Atlantic interannual variability and its relation to dynamic and thermodynamic processes

Abstract. The contributions of the dynamic and thermodynamic forcing to the interannual variability of the equatorial Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST) are investigated using a set of interannual regional simulations of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. The ocean model is forced with an interactive atmospheric boundary layer, avoiding damping toward prescribed air temperature as is usually the case in forced ocean models. The model successfully reproduces a large fraction (R2 = 0.55) of the observed interannual variability in the equatorial Atlantic. In agreement with leading theories, our results confirm that the interannual variations of the dynamical forcing largely contributes to this variability. We show that mean and seasonal upper ocean temperature biases, commonly found in fully coupled models, strongly favor an unrealistic thermodynamic control of the equatorial Atlantic interannual variability.
Bacterial use of choline to tolerate salinity shifts in sea-ice brines

Bacteria within the brine network of sea ice experience temperature-driven fluctuations in salinity on both short and long temporal scales, yet their means of osmoprotection against such fluctuations is poorly understood. One mechanism used to withstand the ion fluxes caused by salinity shifts, well-known in mesophilic bacteria, is the import and export of low molecular weight organic solutes that are compatible with intracellular functions. Working with the marine psychrophilic gammaproteobacterium, Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H, and with natural microbial assemblages present in sackhole brines drained from sea ice in Kanajorsuit Bay (2013) and Kobbefjord (2014), Greenland, we measured the utilization of 14C-choline (precursor to glycine betaine, a common compatible solute) at −1°C upon salinity shifts to double and to half the starting salinity. In all cases and across a range of starting salinities, when salinity was increased, 14C-solute (choline or derivatives) was preferentially retained as an intracellular osmolyte; when salinity was decreased, 14C-choline was preferentially respired to 14CO2. Additional experiments with cold-adapted bacteria in culture indicated that an abrupt downshift in salinity prompted rapid (subsecond) expulsion of retained 14C-solute, but that uptake of 14C-choline and solute retention resumed when salinity was returned to starting value. Overall, the results indicate that bacteria in sea-ice brines use compatible solutes for osmoprotection, transporting, storing and cycling these molecules as needed to withstand naturally occurring salinity shifts and persist through the seasons. Because choline and many commonly used compatible solutes contain nitrogen, we suggest that when brines freshen and bacteria respire such compatible solutes, the corresponding regeneration of ammonium may enhance specific biogeochemical processes in the ice, possibly algal productivity but particularly nitrification. Measurements of potential nitrification rates in parallel sea-ice samples are consistent with a link between use of the compatible solute strategy and nitrification.
Dynamic Panel Data Analysis of CO2 Emissions Driving Forces

A large literature is assent on the fact that human activities gluttonous in fossil energy are the major cause of climate change (IPCC, 2001). These changes are attributed to the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide which is the most harmful pollutant. To recognize the relationship human / nature, several theories in economics and sociology have been developed trying to study the quality of the environment, including: ecological modernization theory, treadmill of production theory, treadmill of destruction theory, metabolic rift theory, World-System theory, and human ecology theory.
Generating an efficient remote collaboration environment using shared gaze.

Visual sharing over long distance has become an everyday medium with the current advancements in technology. A person can simply wear a head-mounted display (HMD) such as the Google Glass and enable another person to view what they see on a remote desktop. My thesis tested an interface to see if video conferencing experience could be improved through different cues from a remote user. Hereby, making it simple for the person wearing the head-mount to communicate more efficiently in the video sharing process. The primary focus of this interface is to simplify the human-human interaction over video conferencing. As a part of creating this interface, I reviewed the literature of wearable devices, different forms of communication processes and ARbased advancements. As part of my thesis, I developed a prototype system to test the effects of different cues in a collaborative video-conferencing environment. In the experiment, a remote user instructed a local user by sharing their camera feed using a HMD to perform a set of actions using varied conditions. The experiment used a HMD with an attached camera for the local user and an eye tracker for the remote user. User studies, interviews and tests were performed in different stages to approve the adoption of the prototype. The results showed that the users preferred the mouse + voice and gaze + voice cues over voice only cues in the remote collaborative process over video conferencing. However, there was a trend showing that the participants were in favour of using gaze cues over the other two conditions considering the ease-of-use and clear communication.
Master Thesis Dementia Caregiving: the construct validity of the CarerQol instrument to measure the impact of informal care among caregivers of dementia

_________________________________________________________________ 3 Introduction _______________________________________________________________ 4 Informal care ____________________________________________________________ 4 Dementia caregiving _______________________________________________________ 6 Informal care in economic evaluations ________________________________________ 7 The CarerQol instrument __________________________________________________ 10 Study objectives and hypothesis ____________________________________________ 13 Methods _________________________________________________________________ 16 Population/ data _________________________________________________________ 16 Measures/Questionnaires _________________________________________________ 16 Statistical analysis ________________________________________________________ 18 Convergent validity _____________________________________________________ 18 Clinical validity ________________________________________________________ 20 Results __________________________________________________________________ 22 Characteristics of caregivers, care recipients and care situations ___________________ 22 CarerQol-7D ____________________________________________________________ 26 Convergent validity_______________________________________________________ 26 Subjective burden measures on the basis of CarerQol7D ________________________ 27 Subgroups ______________________________________________________________ 28 Clinical validity __________________________________________________________ 29 CarerQol-VAS score ______________________________________________________ 29 CarerQol-7D sum score ___________________________________________________ 30 Discussion ________________________________________________________________ 32 Convergent validity_______________________________________________________ 33 Clinical validity __________________________________________________________ 35 Study Limitations ________________________________________________________ 36 Conclusion _______________________________________________________________ 38 Appendix 1 _______________________________________________________________ 39 Appendix 2 _______________________________________________________________ 39