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Investigation of different Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) hybrids for yield and other associated traits under climatic conditions of Dera Ghazi Khan

Eight sorghum hybrids with one check variety were evaluated for grain yield and other associated traits at sorghum research sub-station, Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan in 2013. The results revealed that sorghum hybrids differed significantly for grain yield, stalk yield, plant height, days to 50% flowering and maturity. Among hybrids, YSH-95, YSH-111, and YSH-28 produced higher grain yield (i.e. 4.667, 4.267 and 4.244 tons/ha, respectively) than other hybrids tested. Hybrids YSH-95 and YSH-33 produced higher stalk yield of 43.2 and 37 tons/ha, respectively. Sorghum hybrids YSH-75 and YSH-114 took maximum 73 days to 50% flowering, while the hybrids YSH-113 took minimum 64 days to 50% flowering. The hybrids YSH-111 and YSH-28 showed earliness in maturity as 108 days and 110 days were taken to get maturity, respectively. Maximum plant height of 253 cm was prominent for YSH-95, while minimum plant height of 158 cm was noticed for YSH-36. It is concluded that YSH-95 is potentially superior in producing higher grain and stalk yield. The implication of these results in the context of adaptation to prevailing weather could be an interesting/resourceful option for farmers.
Fast-ion transport induced by Alfvén eigenmodes in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

A comprehensive suite of diagnostics has allowed detailed measurements of the Alfvén eigenmode (AE) spatial structure and subsequent fast-ion transport in the ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) tokamak [1]. Reversed shear Alfvén eigenmodes (RSAEs) and toroidal induced Alfvén eigenmodes (TAEs) have been driven unstable by fast ions from ICRH as well as NBI origin. In ICRF heated plasmas, diffusive and convective fast-ion losses induced by AEs have been characterized in fast-ion phase space. While single RSAEs and TAEs eject resonant fast ions in a convective process directly proportional to the fluctuation amplitude, δB/B, the overlapping of multiple RSAE and TAE spatial structures and wave–particle resonances leads to a large diffusive loss, scaling as (δB/B)2. In beam heated discharges, coherent fast-ion losses have been observed primarily due to TAEs. Core localized, low amplitude NBI driven RSAEs have not been observed to cause significant coherent fast-ion losses. The temporal evolution of the confined fast-ion profile in the presence of RSAEs and TAEs has been monitored with high spatial and temporal resolution. A large drop in the central fast-ion density due to many RSAEs has been observed as qmin passes through an integer. The AE radial and poloidal structures have been obtained with unprecedented details using a fast SXR as well as 1D and 2D ECE radiometers. GOURDON and HAGIS simulations have been performed to identify the orbit topology of the escaping ions and study the transport mechanisms. Both passing and trapped ions are strongly redistributed by AEs.
AN INVESTIGATION OF BOARD DIRECTORS’ ABSENCE AND ITS DETERMINANTS IN THE MALAYSIAN STOCK MARKET

This paper examines the relation between directors’ absence in board meetings as an indicator of directors’ busyness with possible determinants of director absence on the constituent companies of FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI index from 2005 to 2008. This study has found board size as the strongest determinant of directors’ absence. As the size grows, there is higher probability of directors to be absent from board meetings. This study found a board size of 9 and less as an optimum board size. We also found that the more independent directors on the board, the less absence they made. The results showed that the number of multiple directorships a director holds, number of annual meetings, age, and ethnicity of the director are not significant determinants.
The Effect of Pyrroloquinoline Quinone (PQQ) on Viability of Human Colorectal Adenocarcinoma HT-29 Cell Line

In recent studies, interest has been aroused in the study of a novel quinone, which could represent a good advance in natural medicine: pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ). PQQ is a polyphenolic compound, found in plants, animal cells, various foods and biological fluids. Several authors have proposed to PQQ as a new vitamin (Bauerly et al., 2011; Flores-Encarnación et al., 2014; Noji et al., 2007; Rucker et al., 2009). PQQ was first recognized as a bacterial cofactor in 1979, until date it has been purified and crystallized (Satyabrata et al., 2013; Stites et al., 2000). In the 90 ́s, it was known more about its chemical-biological properties of PQQ. For example: it has been reported that PQQ functions as a potent cofactor in certain bacterial dehydrogenases (Flores-Encarnación et al., 2004). In animal cells, PQQ is involved in different signal transduction processes during cell growth, development, differentiation and cellular survival (Akagawa et al., 2016; Feng et al., 2014; Kimura et al., 2012). It has been reported that PQQ is a potent antioxidant (50-100 times more effective than ascorbic acid) (Rucker et al., 2009). It has been also reported that PQQ can function as a protector in cardiac lesions, prevents liver injury by eliminating free radicals, stimulates astrocytes and inhibits the generation of melanocytes in melanoma (Akagawa et al., 2016; Feng et al., 2014; Jia et al., 2015; Murase et al., 1993; Sato and Toriyama, 2009; Tao et al., 2007). In animal models, it has been shown that when PQQ is added to the diet (300 μg/kg body weight), reproduction and neonatal rates in rats and mice were increased (Harris et al., 2013).
Then and Now: Human-Wildlife Interactions in Simon Fraser's New Caledonia

Arguing that the character of a region is determined in part by the relationship between humans and other living creatures, this paper examines how attitudes and wildlife management practices with respect to two regionally significant species—the wolf and the grizzly bear—have evolved over the past fifty years in northern British Columbia. Several ethical, planning, and management issues raised by the history of wolf and grizzly bear management in BC are discussed. The paper concludes that a public involvement program that integrates expert knowledge, research, and analysis with public input, reasoned deliberation, and consensusbuilding is essential if public controversy is to be minimized, our wildlife heritage is to be preserved, and the interests of all stakeholders are to be given an adequate voice in the management of BC’s wildlife. We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, and the cowman with trap and poison, the statesman with pen, the most of us with machines, votes, and dollars, but it all comes to the same thing: peace in our time. A measure of success in this is all well enough, and perhaps is a requisite to objective thinking, but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau’s dictum: In wildness is salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men.
MAKE UP SEPT 2007

T H E S O U T H E R N A F R I C A N J O U R NA L O F H I V ME D I C I N E 18 The HIV pandemic has contributed greatly to the emergence of opportunistic fungal pathogens and increased incidence of opportunistic fungal infections over the last two decades; the morbidity and mortality impact is especially pronounced in sub-Saharan Africa. A systematic review of African cohort studies and selected cross-sectional studies in HIV-infected patients reported incidence rate ranges for three common fungal opportunistic infections: oral candidiasis (3.8 43.8 cases/100 person-years-observation (PYO)), cryptococcosis (0.3 4 cases/100 PYO) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) (0 0.5 cases/100 PYO). Cryptococcosis caused 44% of deaths in a cohort of HIV-infected South African miners and was the third commonest infectious cause for hospitalisation. South African adult and paediatric studies have shown that PCP accounts for 20 52% of community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalised HIV-infected patients. This review aims to provide a guide for clinicians to using the clinical microbiology laboratory for the management of common HIVassociated opportunistic fungal infections. Close interaction with the local laboratory is recommended to facilitate awareness of the spectrum of laboratory tests on offer (Table I), to guide appropriate specimen collection and to assist with interpretation of laboratory test results.
The effect of field pea (Pisum sativum) replacement in starch- and fiber-based post weaning transition diets for 7.5 month old beef calves and subsequent effect on feedlot finishing performance, carcass quality and net return.

The research objective, during a 3-yr study, was to compare starchand fiber-based 38 d weaning transition diets (WTD) to identify the effect on calf performance, feed intake and feed efficiency (FE). Subsequently, the effect of WTD on feedlot finishing performance and cow and calf net return was determined. Crossbred steer and female calves (Angus x Hereford x Gelbvieh; n=405; Age=7.5 month; BW=278±4.3 kg) were randomly assigned to six treatments (4 pen replicates/treatment) based on age and weaning weight. Starch-based WTD were formulated with soybean meal (SBM) and field pea (FP), and fiber-based diets were formulated with increasing levels of FP (0-30%). Pelleted WTD treatments were: 1-(CSBM) starch-base+SBM, 2-(CPEA) starch-base+FP, 3-(0PEA) fiber-base+0% FP, 4-(10PEA) fiber-base+10% FP, 5-(20PEA) fiber-base+20% FP, and 6-(30PEA) fiber-base+30% FP. The CSBM, 0PEA, 10PEA, and 20PEA treatments had greater gain and average daily gain (ADG) compared to the CPEA and 30PEA (P<0.01), and the CPEA treatment had the lowest gain and ADG (P<0.001). Dry matter intake (DMI) was greatest for the fiber-based 0PEA and 20PEA WTD treatments and lowest for the starch-based CSBM and CPEA (P<0.001), and WTD did not affect FE (P=0.39). In addition, feedlot finishing performance and carcass measurements were not affected by WTD (P>0.10). Therefore, we conclude that FP can replace up to 20% of fiber-based ingredients in WTD without affecting DMI and ADG. However, the highest cow-calf net return was from the CSBM, 20PEA and 30PEA WTD treatments (P<0.001).
Computational and Experimental Investigation of Flow Around a 3-1 Prolate Spheroid

The flow around a 3-1 prolate spheroid near the critical Reynolds number is investigated experimentally and numerically. This work was conducted as part of a larger project to examine the flow around Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. The experimental investigation has been performed in a water tunnel at the Australian Maritime College. Fast response pressure probes and a 3-D automated traverse have been developed to investigate the state of the boundary layer. A commercial CFD code has been modified to allow the experimentally determined boundary layer state to be included in the computation. Qualitative and quantitative comparisons between the measured and calculated results are discussed. The tests on the spheroid were conducted within a Reynolds numbers range of 0 . 6 ×106 to 4×106. The results presented here are for an incidence of 10 .
Dimensioning of the educational context under the influence of the emotional level

In the process of formation of the human individual, starting from school age and ending with the higher educational cycle, through all its components, condition in absolute intellectual performance. Relating to the nonverbal behavioral nucleus – emotional intelligence – we start from the premise that the nature of the teacher-student relationship must be regarded not only from the perspective of the input process, respectively that of knowledge acquisition, but mostly from its educational, training dimension, considering that school is, in terms of importance, the second factor (after the family) that must participate to the education of the child/ teenager.
Hysteresis Voltage Control of DVR Based on Unipolar PWM

Power quality problems like voltage sag, voltage swell and harmonic are major concern of the industrial and commercial electrical consumers due to enormous loss in terms of time and money. This is due to the Advent of a large numbers of sophisticated electrical and electronic equipment, such as computers, programmable logic controllers, variable speed drives, and so forth. The use of these equipments often requires power supplies of very high quality. Some special equipment is sensitive to voltage disturbances, especially if these take up to several periods, the circuit does not work. Therefore, these adverse effects of voltage changes necessitate the existence of effective mitigating devices. There are various solutions to these problems. One of the most effective solutions is the installation of a dynamic voltage restorer (DVR).
Assessment of Female and Male Farmers’ Participation Difference on Types of Agricultural Extension Training Delivered in Halaba Special Woreda, Southern Ethiopia

This study was conducted on " Assessment of Female and male farmers’ participation difference on types of Agricultural extension training delivered in Halaba special woreda, South Nations and Nationalities of People Region, Ethiopia" to address the objectives; assessing level of difference between female and male farmers’ participation in extension service delivered at the study area and to identify as there was differences between female and male farmers’ participation on types of extension training delivered at the study area. Primary and secondary data were used for this research. For Primary data collection multistage sampling was employed. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The qualitative and quantitative data collected from respondents were coded and entered in to SPSS version 20 for analysis. And then the difference between female and male farmers' participation in extension training tested by using Pearson chi-square test, t-test, mean, percentage and standard deviation. The results of this study showed that, there were less participation of female farmers than male farmers on different types of extension training delivered in the study area. Therefore, local political leaders, extension planners and DAs should plan and deliver gender equality based extension training service with due attention to female farmers in the areas. Keywords: Extension training, Participation difference, Female and Male farmers
Quantum metrology in Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick critical systems

The Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) model describes critical systems with interaction beyond thefirst-neighbor approximation. Here we address quantum metrology in LMG systems and show how criticality may be exploited to improve precision. At first we focus on the characterization of LMG systems themselves, i.e., the estimation of anisotropy, and address the problem by considering the quantum Crambound. We evaluate the quantum Fisher information of small-size LMG chains made of N = 2, 3, and 4 lattice sites and also analyze the same quantity in the thermodynamical limit. Our results show that criticality is indeed a resource and that the ultimate bounds to precision may be achieved by tuning the external field and measuring the total magnetization of the system. We then address the use of LMG systems as quantum thermometers and show that (i) precision is governed by the gap between the lowest energy levels of the systems and (ii) field-dependent level crossing is a metrological resource to extend the operating range of the quantum thermometer.
Hedge funds: Drivers of co-movements among financial assets

This empirical paper seeks to gure out the role of Global macro hedge funds in the co-movement process among nancial markets, and the contagion during the nancial crisis in 2008. Indeed, the alternative management strategies of hedge funds can be a channel for transmitting shocks between markets. The dynamic of hedge fund portfolios leads to a diversied exposure to risks explaining the co-movements among asset returns. To verify this hypothesis, we propose the following methodology: after evaluating the co-movements of nancial assets by using a DCC-GARCH model, the series of conditional correlations are exploited in a non-linear model to understand the impact of Global macro funds’ performance regimes and their risk factor exposure, computed with a space-state model estimated by Kalman lter, on these co-movements. The results reveal a signicant contribution of hedge funds in the co-movement among
Etiology of mycoflora causing blossom-end rot of tomato

Alternaria alternata, Fusarium pallidoroseum, F. oxysporum, F. chlamydosporum, Curvularia lunata [Cochliobolus lunatus] and Cladosporium tenuissimum were found to be associated with blossom-end rot of tomatoes in Orissa, India.
Female Workers' Age and Position on Organizational Citizenship Behaviour: The Moderator Role of Organization-Based Self-Esteem

This study discusses the age and position of women in relation to elements of organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) at Level 1, with organization-based self-esteem (OBSE) as the moderator and independent variable at Level 2. However, participation does not achieve an acceptable standard and is removed from this study. Study 1 and Study 2 employ a hierarchical linear model (HLM) to explore the influence of age and position on obedience and loyalty, respectively, where OBSE is the moderator. This study investigates 391 females from 12 occupations and uses 349 pieces of data to obtain the HLM. The results of Studies 1 and 2 show that age is positively related to obedience and position negatively and related to loyalty, but that OBSE is positively related to obedience, and the moderating effect of OBSE only appears in the relationship between position and obedience in Study 1. This study exclusively investigates females, and hopes to provide avenues relating to the effects of age and position on OCB of males and females in future research. Furthermore, the future research hopes to develop the path about OCB generation based on obedience, loyalty, and participation.
The Effects of Sectoral Decline on the Employment Relationship

This paper investigates tenure effects on employee retention under varying labor market conditions. We develop simple models of the likelihood of employer default (through early dismissals) on delayed payment and specific human capital contracts, and the predicted tenure pattern in these defaults under adverse conditions. The empirical implications of the models are investigated using competing risks analyses of tenure effects on recall and new job acceptance applied to layoff unemployment spell data from Waves XV and XVI (1982-83) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The results indicate that adverse conditions (sectoral employment decline and unemployment) significantly reduce the positive tenure effect on recall probabilities in the 1983 data. This result is consistent with firm default on delayed payment contracts, but may also reflect the effect of technological changes that lower the value of firm-specific investments. The Effects of Sectoral Decline on the Employment Relationship Todd L. Idson Columbia University and Robert G. Valletta University of California at Irvine May, 1993 We thank Katharine Abraham, John DiNardo, Daniel Hamermesh, Julie Hotchkiss, Robert Hutchens, Edward Lazear, David Lilien, Jacob Mincer, and seminar participants at the University of Chicago, UC Irvine, UCLA, University of Maryland, and Yale for helpful comments. The Effects of Sectoral Decline on the Employment Relationship
The Galaxidi earthquake of 18 November 1992: A possible asperity within the normal fault system of the Gulf of Corinth (Greece)

The Galaxidi earthquake that occurred in the Gulf of Corinth on 18 November 1992 was not followed by a noticeable aftershock sequence, a fact that was also observed for the 1965 Eratini event in the same area. The temporary network of 35 stations that we installed 5 days after the mainshock did not help to identify a cluster of activity related to the mainshock. In a section across the epicentral zone, the focal mechanism of the mainshock and the distribution of a few aftershocks define a plane dipping north, consistent with the nearby Helike fault. We propose that the Galaxidi earthquake was related to an asperity located between the Helike and Xilokastro faults.
Dividend Policy, Cash Flow, and Investment in Tehran Stock Exchange

The study aims to know the relationship between dividend policy, cash flow and investment of firms. For this, 100 firms from stock Tehran exchange during 2002-2008 were investigated. In this research the year 2006 is the base year of dividend policy identification. The firms were divided into three kinds: Dividend increase, dividend decrease and no dividend change. The results of Wilcoxon test showed that there is a significant relation between dividend payment policy and cash flow, operating income, leverage ratio, and tangible fixed assets. The Regression test results revealed that the next two years income has not a significant effect on the changes of dividend of the base year, but two previous years income had effect on it. Further, the Regression test results showed that Tobin q ratio, cash flow, dividend, dividend announcement and change in liabilities have a significant effect on level of investment. On the contrary, growth rate and paid-in capital have no significant effect on level of investment. Key words: Dividend Policy; Investment; Cash Flow.
Measuring Gender Identity and Religious Identity with Adapted Versions of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure—Revised

Adolescent identity develops across various domains (e.g., ethnicity, gender, religion). Although these domains share elements of identity (e.g., belongingness, self-categorization) there is a lack of continuity in the elements selected when measuring various domains of adolescent identity. This study tested whether an adapted version of Phinney and Ong’s (2007) Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure—Revised (developed to measure adolescents’ ethnic identity) could also measure gender and religious identities. Participants (N = 247, 56% female, Mage = 13.33 years) completed adapted versions of the MEIM—R measuring gender identity (which we call the Multi-Identity Measure for Gender) and religious identity (Multi-Identity Measure for Religion). Confirmatory factor analysis models for the MIM-Gender and MIM-Religion scales demonstrated modest to good fits. In addition, the MIM-Gender and MIM-Religion scales demonstrated preliminary validity. These preliminary results suggest the adapted MEIM—R scales have the potential to measure domains of adolescent identity beyond ethnicity.