Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Development of Safflower Subjected to Nitrogen Rates in Cerrado Soil

In a context in which the nitrogen fertilizer recommendations in the literature for safflower crop show up conflicting, it was aimed by the present study to evaluate the development of safflower when subjected to nitrogen rates in an Oxisol collected under Cerrado vegetation. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse using pots filled with Oxisol collected in area under Cerrado vegetation in the layer from 0.0 to 0.20 m. Each experimental unit was represented by a plastic pot of 5 dm-3, the experimental design was completely randomized, consisting of six nitrogen rates (0, 60, 120, 180, 240 and 300 mg&degdm-3) and six repetitions. It were assessed plant height, number of leaves, chlorophyll content, number of heads, dry mass of shoot and dry mass of root. The results were submitted to variance analysis and, when significant, to regression analysis, both at 5% probability by SISVAR program. Nitrogen rates positively influence the development of safflower, and the one that best promotes this development is between 160 and 190 mg&degdm-3.
Mapping of Supply Chain Risk in Industrial Furniture Base on House of Risk Framework

Business success in unpredictable market conditions and volatility, business competition is no longer dependent on the ability of the company's business operations individual but based supply chain. Therefore, the effectiveness of the supply chain requires the synchronization of all entities involved in the supply chain of products or services. Strategy to build a strong supply chain needed to reduce market uncertainty. This study aims to map the risk agents and events risks that may arise as a result of the risks identified agent. Analysis of risk mapping is done by using the framework of the House of Risk (HOR). Data collection techniques using triangulation method that combines in-depth interview technique with a numbers of successful exporters and distributing questionnaires to 84 SMEs in the DIY furniture. The results of in-depth interviews to identify as many as 23 agents and 43 incidence risk of supply chain risk. To mitigate the risk is focused on a number of agents who have a value of the index Priorities Risk Agent (PRA) which has an index value of more than 400 and there are 5 top PRA index that must be considered is the lack of supervision or PRA 13; Production schedule changes or PRA 12; Often unpredictable requests or PRA 11; Needs of large and volatile materials or PRA 8 And technology is not compatible or PRA 9. Recommendations future studies need to use to control the operating life of the company and use the framework as a tool HOR 2 to develop supply chain risk mitigation strategies. Keywords : Synchronization; HoR Framework; Risk Mapping; Priority of Risk Agent (PRA); Rrisk mitigation
USERS AS CO-INVENTORS: A MODEL OF INVOLVING USERS IN THE EARLY STAGES OF NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (RIKON Group)

Despite the increasing importance attributed to the involvement of lead users in the early stages of product development, there have been only limited attempts that comprehensively detail how the lead user involvement approach is implemented in practice. How to effectively involve these lead users and manage the process remains a central dilemma? Based upon a critical literature review and case research, this paper will make a unique contribution to a very significant gap in the user involvement and innovation literature, by presenting a framework that models the processes that enables a company to successfully involve their lead users in their predevelopment activities and in so doing, will obtain implementable guidelines that can be used by firms to enhance the delivery of innovative and appealing new product concepts.
An econometric decomposition of dairy output growth

Fixed effects production functions and stochastic production frontiers are estimated and used to decompose dairy farm output growth into technological progress, technical efficiency, and increased input use or the size effect. Unbalanced panel data for ninety-six Vermont dairy farmers for the 1971-84 period are utilized. The results show a 2.5% average annual increase in milk output. About 56% of this growth is attributed to the size effect and the remaining 44% to productivity growth. Technological progress contributed about 94% to total productivity growth, while improvements in technical efficiency accounted for only 6%.
New occurrence of the Ordovician eocrinoid cardiocystites: Palaeogeographical and palaeoecological implications

Flattened eocrinoids are very rare in the fossil record, notably because of their fragility. Recent investigations in the Anti−Atlas (Morocco) have provided one of the oldest known specimens of Cardiocystites from the Upper Ordovician (early–middle Sandbian). This discovery increases the number of eocrinoid genera known in Morocco. This new material is the fifth published specimen of the genus Cardiocystites. It is well preserved, thus allowing morphological details, such as the location of the anal pyramid and the plane of thecal flattening, to be observed. Palaeoecological reconstruction can be deduced or confirmed from these new details. The respiration of Cardiocystites now seems due to the combination of both epidermal gaseous exchange and cloacal pumping. Stem length and synostosial articulation indicate that the stem might have been used as a mooring line allowing the theca to float in the currents. The flattening of the Cardiocystites theca seems to be an adaptation to high energy hydrodynamic conditions and cold waters. Occurrences of Cardiocystites bohemicus in Morocco, in the early–middle Sandbian, and in Bohemia, in the early Katian, indicate that the genus proba− bly originated in the west Gondwanan margin. Migration could explain the occurrence of Cardiocystites in this area and also in Avalonia in the late Sandbian. The global sea−level rise and the presence of cool water circulation from west Gond− wana to Avalonia and Laurentia in the early Sandbian favour such a hypothesis.
Tight-binding study of thermal expansions for Mo3Si

We implemented a tight-binding parameter extraction scheme that is suitable for the modeling of intermetallic alloy systems. Using Mo3Si as an example, we obtained the Slater-Koster tight-binding parameters directly from results of full-potential linear muffin-tin orbital calculation by using a modification of the approach of McMahan and Klepeis [Phys. Rev. B 56, 12250 (1997)]. The transferability and accuracy of these parameters were tested against ab initio results. Augmented by a fitted repulsive energy contribution that takes the form of embedded atom potential, the tight-binding total energy method was applied in Monte Carlo simulations to compute the coefficients of thermal expansion for Mo3Si.
The Effect on Korean Consumers' Brand Preference, Trust and Purchase Intention for Donation Amount Information of Luxury Fashion Brands

This study attempts to explain the unique patterns in Korean consumer behavior regarding the luxury fashion brands' donation activities by exploring the moderating effects of corporate ability (CA) and subjective norm (SN) on the relationship between donations and consumers' brand preference, brand trust, and purchase intention. A total of 209 completed questionnaires, collected from online surveys, were analyzed using moderated multiple regression. The result shows that donation amount information positively influences consumers' brand preference, brand trust and purchase intention toward luxury fashion brands. Next, CA strengthens the relationships between donation amount information and consumers' brand trust and purchase intention. SN from the opposite gender compensates for the negative effect of negative donation amount information on consumers' trust toward luxury fashion brands, whereas SN from the same gender does not influence those relationships. This study provides a deeper understanding of luxury fashion brands' donations and consumer responses in South Korea-one of the important test markets for luxury fashion brands to expand their business to Asian countries.
Attempting to Develop Transferrable Oral Fluency in Storybook Reading: A Yomikikase Case Study

A popular component of family literacy programs consists of encouraging parents to read stories to/with their children. Reading together has been linked with considerable improvements in literacy in L1 contexts, however reading together in an L2 remains underexplored. In Japan this area is practically unexplored altogether. Given most Japanese parents of elementary-age children today have been through six years of compulsory English in JHS and HS, as well as the fact that the storybooks used in such programs are typically comprised of low-level vocabulary and accompanied by pictures that support the story, it is reasonable to wonder if a storybook reading intervention for Japanese parents presents a feasible option for augmenting young Japanese English learners’ English language development. Specifi cally, this study investigated two things. First, are oral fl uency gains in storybook reading possible for a Japanese reader of English storybooks over just 10 days? Second, do hypothetical fl uency gains in reading one storybook aloud transfer to a storybook of similar diffi culty? This case study followed one participant over the course of ten days as she practiced reading a single storybook aloud. She spent three days reading aloud, three more days listening to a native speaker model of the text and then reading aloud, and finally three days shadowing that native speaker model. The results showed excellent gains on the text practiced for over 10 days, however no transferrable fl uency gains were observed for the second storybook. The case study participant off ers her thoughts on the texts and activities. Limitations of the study and implications for future research in this area are briefl y discussed.
Clinical Study CD 4 + CD 25 highCD 127 low Regulatory T Cells in Peripheral Blood Are Not an Independent Factor for Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease after Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation

Background. The therapeutic efficacy of allogeneic hemopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) largely relies on the graft-versusleukemia (GVL) effect. Uncontrolled graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a feared complication of HSCT. Regulatory T cells (Treg) are a subset of CD4+ T-helper cells believed to maintain tolerance after HSCT. It remains unclear whether low peripheral blood Treg have an impact on the risk for acute (aGVHD) and chronic GVHD (cGVHD). Methods. In this paper we enumerated the CD4+CD25highCD127low Treg in the peripheral blood of 84 patients after at least 150 days from HSCT and in 20 healthy agematched controls. Results. Although similar mean lymphocyte counts were found in patients and controls, CD3+CD4+ T-cell counts were significantly lower in patients. Patients also had significantly lower Treg percentages among lymphocytes as compared to controls. Patients with cGVHD had even higher percentages of Treg if compared to patients without cGVHD. In multivariate analysis, Treg percentages were not an independent factor for cGVHD. Conclusions. This paper did not show a relation between deficient peripheral blood Treg and cGVHD, therefore cGVHD does not seem to occur as a result of peripheral Treg paucity.
The Hilbert Transform and Orthogonal Martingales in Banach Spaces

Let $X$ be a given Banach space, and let $M$ and $N$ be two orthogonal $X$-valued local martingales such that $N$ is weakly differentially subordinate to $M$. The paper contains the proof of the estimate $\mathbb E \Psi (N_t) \leq C_{\Phi ,\Psi ,X} \mathbb E \Phi (M_t)$, $t\geq 0$, where $\Phi , \Psi :X \to \mathbb R_+$ are convex continuous functions and the least admissible constant $C_{\Phi ,\Psi ,X}$ coincides with the $\Phi ,\Psi $-norm of the periodic Hilbert transform. As a corollary, it is shown that the $\Phi ,\Psi $-norms of the periodic Hilbert transform, the Hilbert transform on the real line, and the discrete Hilbert transform are the same if $\Phi $ is symmetric. We also prove that under certain natural assumptions on $\Phi $ and $\Psi $, the condition $C_{\Phi ,\Psi ,X}<\infty $ yields the UMD property of the space $X$. As an application, we provide comparison of $L^p$-norms of the periodic Hilbert transform to Wiener and Paley–Walsh decoupling constants. We also study the norms of the periodic, nonperiodic, and discrete Hilbert transforms and present the corresponding estimates in the context of differentially subordinate harmonic functions and more general singular integral operators.
Master thesis : Analysis of shape distortion resulting from the manufacturing process for thermoset composites

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Littlewood-Paley characterization for Campanato spaces

The Littlewood-Paley characterization for the local approximation Campanato spaces Lpα is well known in the cases α≥0 and α=−np. We give in this paper a characterization of such a type for L2α spaces (and for Morrey-Campanato spaces L2,λ) for any α≥−n2. These spaces contain as spacial cases the well known spaces BMO of John and Nirenberg and its local version bmo.
STRATIGRAPHY IN PHYLOGENY RECONSTRUCTION—REPLY TO SMITH (2000)

In a brief commentary, Smith (2000) broadly dismisses several newly developed phylogenetic methods that make use of temporal data. In this comment, I wish to concur with other critics of Smith (Fisher et al., 2002; Wagner, 2002), and in particular expand on an argument of Fisher et al. regarding stratocladistics and the divisibility of paleontological time scales. Smith's strongest and most detailed argument is that “With enough subdivisions of time … stratigraphic debt can be made sufficiently large to overturn any phylogeny based on morphology …” As pointed out by Fisher et al. (2002), Clyde and Fisher (1997) actually employed a rather conservative algorithm for defining the number of time intervals. Here I argue that stratocladistics fundamentally depends on global temporal durations of fossil taxa, not just on their ranges across individual (or even composite) stratigraphic sections, and that these durations are intrinsically expressed in discrete, not continuous, units. Thus, paleontological time scales cannot be subdivided arbitrarily and are not literally “stratigraphic. ” I also discuss additional objective criteria for limiting temporal subdivision, which show that a series of stratocladistic studies involving North American mammals actually have underdivided the time scale. Thus, stratocladistics does not allow for infinite temporal subdivision either in principle or in practice. Smith (2000) almost casually mentions that there always may be “enough subdivision of time” to create as much “stratigraphic debt” as one might want. Smith nowhere explains why. One might think so because the literature has used “stratigraphy” and “time” as virtual synonyms; local stratigraphic sections are measured in continuous units such as meters; and perhaps, then, time is mathematically continuous and infinitely divisible. Alternatively, in an illustration Smith (2000, Fig. 1) shows subdivisions of “absolute time,” and numerical time scales also are necessarily discrete and fundamentally different from measured sections. …
TLC- Densitometric Method for Determination of some Cholesterol Lowering Drugs in Different Combinations

Sensitive, selective, precise and economic TLC-Densitometric method has been developed for determination of two binary mixtures containing the antihyperlipidemic Ezetimibe (EZ) in its combination with Atorvastatin calcium (AT) [mixture I] and with Simvastatin (SIM) [mixture II]. In the developed TLC-Densitometric method EZ, AT and SIM were quantitatively separated on 60F254 silica gel plates using ethyl acetate: hexane: glacial acetic acid (5.5:4.5:0.1 by volume) as a developing system with UV detection at 254 nm. Factors affecting the chromatographic separation have been studied, moreover the method has been validated as per ICH guidelines and it has been successfully applied for determination of the studied drugs in their different dosage forms without interference from excepients. Results obtained by the developed TLCDensitometric method were statistically compared with those obtained by the reported spectrophotometric method and no significant difference was found between them.
Multivariate Generalized Linear-statistics of short range dependent data

Generalized linear (GL-) statistics are defined as functionals of an U-quantile process and unify different classes of statistics such as U-statistics and L-statistics. We derive a central limit theorem for GL-statistics of strongly mixing sequences and arbitrary dimension of the underlying kernel. For this purpose we establish a limit theorem for U-statistics and an invariance principle for U-processes together with a convergence rate for the remaining term of the Bahadur representation. An application is given by the generalized median estimator for the tail-parameter of the Pareto distribution, which is commonly used to model exceedances of high thresholds. We use subsampling to calculate confidence intervals and investigate its behaviour under independence and strong mixing in simulations.
Factors That Predict Drug Court Completion and Drop Out: Findings From an Evaluation of Salt Lake County's Adult Felony Drug Court

ABSTRACT This study examined program outcomes for 133 graduates (46.2%) and 155 terminated clients (53.8%) of an adult felony drug court in Salt Lake City, Utah, in an effort to identify factors that predict program completion and drop out. Logistic regression analyses identified three factors related to drop out: depression, cocaine/stimulants as most troubling substance, and additional charges prior to drug court intake. Two factors were found to be related to completion: spending free time with family rather than with friends or alone and older age at intake. The model correctly predicted 65% of graduates and 73% of dropouts. These findings are discussed with respect to their implications for policy, practice, and future research.
Comparative study of the centrosymmetric and noncentrosymmetric superconducting phases of Re3W using muon spin spectroscopy and heat capacity measurements

We compare the low-temperature electronic properties of the centrosymmetric (CS) and noncentrosymmetric (NCS) phases of Re${}_{3}$W using muon-spin spectroscopy and heat capacity measurements. The zero-field $\ensuremath{\mu}$SR results indicate that time-reversal symmetry is preserved for both structures of Re${}_{3}$W. Transverse-field muon-spin rotation has been used to study the temperature dependence of the penetration depth $\ensuremath{\lambda}(T)$ in the mixed state. For both phases of Re${}_{3}$W, $\ensuremath{\lambda}(T)$ can be explained using a single-gap $s$-wave BCS model. The magnetic penetration depth at zero temperature $\ensuremath{\lambda}(0)$ is $164(7)$ and $418(6)$ nm for the centrosymmetric and noncentrosymmetric phases of Re${}_{3}$W, respectively. Low-temperature-specific heat data also provide evidence for an $s$-wave gap symmetry for the two phases of Re${}_{3}$W. Both the $\ensuremath{\mu}$SR and heat capacity data show that the CS material has a higher ${T}_{c}$ and a larger superconducting gap $\ensuremath{\Delta}(0)$ at 0 K than the NCS compound. The ratio $\ensuremath{\Delta}(0)/{k}_{B}{T}_{c}$ indicates that both phases of Re${}_{3}$W should be considered as strong-coupling superconductors.
Impacts of the agro-ecological techniques on soil nutrient- and C-balance in rainfed cropping systems in the highlands of Madagascar

INTRODUCTION In the Vakinankaratra region of Madagascar, the development of rainfed upland crops is a consequence of land pressure. Moreover livestock, especially dairy cattle, is developed in this region. Consequently, upland fields are also used to produce forages for dairy cattle feeding. Farmers cultivate their fields with less and less fallow period and try to compensate the nutrients’ export through biomass and grain by organic manure and rarely mineral fertilizer. However, soil fertility tends to decrease. With an expensive price of agricultural inputs (mineral fertilizers, concentrates feeds), the most important for farmers is to reduce their dependency. All the actors of development and research agricultural organizations advice farmers to use resources available on farms, to promote recycling and to limit losses (FAO, 2102). However, only few researches are interested on improving the manure fertilizer value and nutrient conservation (Salgado et al., 2002). The aim of our study is to evaluate the effect of the conservation agricultural (CA) practices combined with manure improvement on reducing nutrient losses to maintain soil fertility in the long-term and consequently to improve animal and vegetable productions. The objectives of this paper are: (1) to compare the biomass production from different agro-ecological innovations with different fertilizer treatments; (2) to estimate N and C supply to soil according to the management of biomass export; (3) to evaluate biomass management on animal performance.
Diagnostic accuracy of the parameters from ganglion cell complex map, evaluated with SD-OCT in primary open-angle glaucoma

Purpose: To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of ganglion cell complex (GCC) parameters, obtained with optical coherence tomography (OCT) and to determine their role in diagnosis of primary open-angle glaucoma patients. Materials and methods: The study included 84 eyes of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and 40 eyes of healthy individuals. All of them underwent complete eye examination, including standard automated perimetry (HFA II) and OCT (RTVue-100). Avg. GCC (average GCC), Sup. GCC (superior GCC), Inf. GCC (inferior GCC), GLV (globаl loss volume), FLV (focal loss volume) and RNFL (retinal nerve fiber layer — ONH map) were measured. ROC curves were created and sensitivity and specificity were calculated for each of these parameters. Results: The highest sensitivity and specificity was found for GLV and the lowest for Sup. GCC. The area under the ROC curves (AUC) for GLV was found to be the largest and the smallest for Sup. GCC. Conclusion: Parameters from GCC map have high sensitivity and specificity. Their diagnostic capability is similar, even slightly better than RNFL. GLV has the highest diagnostic accuracy for primary open-angle glaucoma detection in this study.