Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Pomological , phenotypical diversity and biochemical characterization of fortheen almond morphotypes from Morocco

This study was focused on almond germplasm characterization of 14 genotypes from the experimental Ain Taoujadate collection based on morphological, pomological and biochemical traits. Results revealed that Commercial and local (Prunus dulcis L.) cultivars vary considerably in their fruit and kernel characteristics. The majority of important correlations were determined among the fruit traits (length, width, thickness, and weight) and the kernel traits (length, width, thickness, and weight). Morphological dendrogram clustered the genotypes into two main groups. The first group consists of only local accessions. The second group in cludes, in addition to local genotypes, a mixture of foreign genotypes. The heterogeneous cluster obtained, maybe the cause of an exchange of plant material as seeds between Morocco and other countries.
Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board , Washington , D . C . Precautionary Volatility and Asset Prices

Many theories of asset prices assume time-varying uncertainty in order to generate timevarying risk premia. This paper generates time-varying uncertainty endogenously, through precautionary saving dynamics. Precautionary motives prescribe that, in bad times, next period’s consumption should be very sensitive to news. This time-varying sensitivity results in time-varying consumption volatility. Production makes this channel visible, and external habit preferences amplify it. An estimated model featuring this channel quantitatively accounts for excess return and dividend predictability regressions. It also matches the first two moments of excess equity returns, the risk-free rate, and the second moments of consumption, output, and investment. ∗I am indebted to Aubhik Khan, Xiaoji Lin, René Stulz, Julia Thomas, and especially Lu Zhang for their training, advice, and inspiration. I would also like to thank John Cochrane, Urban Jermann, Pok Sang Lam, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh for comments which have significantly improved the paper, as well as seminar participants at the University of Arizona, Federal Reserve Board, and the Ohio State University. This paper was previously circulated under the titles “External Habit in a Production Economy,” and “Prudential Uncertainty Causes Time-Varying Risk Premiums. ” The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve or the Federal Reserve System.
Efficacy of Different Antihypertensive Drugs Among Nepalese Population

Humagain S, Koju R. Efficacy of Different Antihypertensive Drugs Among Nepalese Population. Kathmandu Univ Med J XXXX. ABSTRACT Background Cardiovascular disease represents the largest burden on global health, important modifiable risk factor being hypertension. Difference in response to antihypertensive medication depending on ethnic group is well recognized. There is very few data regarding this difference in the South Asian population especially from Nepal. Objective The aim of this study is to find out which antihypertensive medication has better efficacy in our population. Method One seventy two newly diagnosed hypertensive patients who presented to cardiology OPD were included. Blood Pressure was recorded in both arms at least three times. Patients were counseled for lifestyle and dietary modification and were prescribed one of the three drugs Hydrochlorthiazide 25 mg or Amlodipine 5 mg or Enalapril 5 mg. Patients were called back in 4-6 weeks time and Blood Pressure was recorded in similar manner. Result Out of 172 patients, 97 were male and 75 female. The mean age was 55.49±1.03 years. Mean Systolic BP before treatment was 156.2±10.6 mm of Hg and Mean Diastolic BP before treatment was 100.5 ±6.8 with no statistically significant difference among different groups. However Systolic BP reduction was 14.6 ±5.1, 21.9±5.9 and 21.8±7.4 by Hydrochlorthiazide , Amlodipine and Enalapril respectively. Diastolic BP reduction was 8.8±2.5, 14.2±2.8 and 14.3±2.9 by Hydrochlorthiazide , Amlodipine and Enalapril respectively. Conclusion Amlodipine and Enalapril are equally effective in controlling BP in our population. Hydrochlorthiazide is less effective than both Amlodipine and Enalapril.
Study of Laser-Assisted ( e , 2 e ) Process on Helium at 40 eV in a Second-Order Born Treatment

It is usually assumed that the first Born approximation for electron-atom ionization is valid at high impact energies. In the low-energy region, it is necessary to extend the Born approximation to second-order Born term in order to calculate the ionization triple differential cross sections. We investigate the application of the second Born approximation for the laser-assisted single ionization of helium atom by slow electrons. From analysis of the results, we find that second order Born corrections are significantly important at 40 eV for two different laser polarization orientations.
D Face Reconstruction from Light Field Images : A Model-free Approach ( This a preprint of the paper accepted in ECCV 2018 )

Reconstructing 3D facial geometry from a single RGB image has recently instigated wide research interest. However, it is still an ill-posed problem and most methods rely on prior models hence undermining the accuracy of the recovered 3D faces. In this paper, we exploit the Epipolar Plane Images (EPI) obtained from light field cameras and learn CNN models that recover horizontal and vertical 3D facial curves from the respective horizontal and vertical EPIs. Our 3D face reconstruction network (FaceLFnet) comprises a densely connected architecture to learn accurate 3D facial curves from low resolution EPIs. To train the proposed FaceLFnets from scratch, we synthesize photorealistic light field images from 3D facial scans. The curve by curve 3D face estimation approach allows the networks to learn from only 14K images of 80 identities, which still comprises over 11 Million EPIs/curves. The estimated facial curves are merged into a single pointcloud to which a surface is fitted to get the final 3D face. Our method is model-free, requires only a few training samples to learn FaceLFnet and can reconstruct 3D faces with high accuracy from single light field images under varying poses, expressions and lighting conditions. Comparison on the BU-3DFE and BU-4DFE datasets show that our method reduces reconstruction errors by over 20% compared to recent state of the art.
Flexible Fourier Stationary Test in Purchasing Power Parity for Central and Eastern European Countries

This study applies stationary test with a Fourier function proposed by Becker, Enders and Lee (2006) to test the validity of long-run purchasing power parity (PPP) to assess the non-stationary properties of the real exchange rate for seven Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. We find that our approximation has higher power to detect U-shaped breaks and smooth breaks than linear method if the true data generating process of exchange rate is in fact a stationary non-liner process. We examine the validity of PPP from the nonlinear point of view and provide robust evidence clearly indicate that PPP holds true for two countries, namely Bulgaria and Romania. Our findings point out their exchange rate adjustment is mean reversion towards PPP equilibrium values in a non-linear way.
Status of insecticide resistance in lesser grain borer, Rhyzopertha dominica to Malathion and Deltamethrin in Andhra Pradesh

A laboratory experiment was carried out with insecticide resistance levels of malathion and deltamethrin against different populations of lesser grain borer during 2015-16. Rhizopertha dominica populations showed 3.07, 2.61 and 3.80 folds resistant at LC50 level to malathion (from Ghantasala, Maruteru and Bapatla, respectively) in comparison to laboratory susceptible population. The Jangamaheswarapuram and Nalgonda populations of R. dominica showed 2.10 and 1.80 folds resistant (LC50) to malathion, respectively when compared to their laboratory susceptible population. The Bapatla and Maruteru populations were 1.60 and 1.07 folds resistant at LC50 level to deltamethrin, respectively in comparison with laboratory susceptible population at 72 hours after treatment. The Jangamaheswarapuram population recorded 1.04 (LC50) folds resistant to deltamethrin in comparison to laboratory susceptible population. The Ghantasala and Nalgonda populations were recorded resistance as 0.92 folds at LC50 resistance was recorded as 1.01 and 1.21 folds in comparison with the laboratory susceptible population, respectively.
PROPERTIES OF BELGIAN ACID BEERS AND THEIR MICROFLORA

It is well known that one of the most common forms of beer infection is acidification by lactic acid bacteria. It may be realistic to assume that most (small) breweries once in a while may suffer from the unwanted growth of these bacteria in wort, during bottling or in casks. However acidification by lactic acid bacteria is a very natural process to adjust the pH of the malt or the wort (Derdelinckx et al., 1994) and the presence of lactic acid in beer is not always to be considered as rejectable. Lactic acid gives to the beer a special refreshing taste. Thus we find in Europe several types of so called acid beers: in Belgium these are of the gueuze type or the Rodenbach type, in Germany the Berliner Weissbier. In England and Ireland a low concentration of lactic acid in porter, ale, scotch and stout is reported to be appreciated by the consumers. The Belgian gueuze types deserve some special consideration as they are the only beers, which on an industrial scale are still produced by spontaneous fermentation of the wort. The Rodenbach beers are also special, considering the fact that during the long fermentation periods used for some types, yeasts considered as "wild yeasts" by the brewers, are also involved together with lactic acid bactena.
Clove essential oil from Eugenia caryophyllus Induces Anesthesia, Alters Swimming Performance, Heart functioning and Decreases Survival Rate During Recovery of Daphnia magna

Clove oil is a common anesthetic used in aquaculture. However little is known on its effects on non-target crustaceans living in fish ponds and other natural reservoirs. The purpose of the investigation was to determine survival, time to anesthesia (TtA) and recovery (TtR), swimming activity, heart functioning during 5 and 45-min exposure of Daphnia magna to clove oil at concentrations of 150, 100, 50, 25, 10 and 1 μl/L. Swimming behavior and heart activity of Daphnia were evaluated by video image analysis with the use of Tracker® v.4. 82 and Image Tool® software. The results showed that the oil induced anesthesia at three highest concentrations: 150, 100 and 50 μl/L. TtA and TtR were dependent on the size of the animal and concentration of the oil. The shortest TtA and the longest TtR were noted for the smallest daphnids anaesthetized for 45 minutes at 150, 100 and 50 ul/L. Lethality of small and large daphnids previously exposed to anesthetic concentrations for both times was observed at 24th hour of recovery period suggesting latent toxicity of clove oil. The oil inhibited heart rate, heart muscle contraction and swimming velocity at anesthetic (150, 100, 50 μl/L) and at non-anesthetic concentrations of 25, 10 and 1μl/L. Recovery period after previous 45-min anesthesia showed temporal increase however and subsequent decrease of Daphnia swimming velocity and heart activity resulting probably from latent toxicity. The results of the present study indicate that clove oil induces rapid immobilization and latent toxicity in Daphnia magna, at lower concentrations that those recommended for fish anesthesia and suggest that excessive use of the oil in natural ponds or other water reservoirs may be detrimental to coexisting cladocerans leading to disturbance of ecological balance.
THE CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY OF MONTMORILLONITE

A modification of the Hofmann-Endell-Wilm structure is proposed in order to account for the thermochemical properties of montmoriilonite. According to the new hypothesis, hydroxyl ions can occur in the tetrahedral layers as statistical substitutions in a manner analogous to the substitution of (OH)a for SiOr in the garnetoids. The second high-temperature endotherm is interpreted as evidence of the occurrence of hydroxyls in tetrahedral configuration, whereas the hydroxyl water given off during the first high-temperature endotherm is liberated from the octahedral Iayer. If the silicon content of the structural unit decreases in the manner postulated, the amount of aluminum in tetrahedral coordination cannot be calculated without a knowledge of the hydroxyl content of the tetrahedral layers. This concept may explain unsuccessful calculations of the base-exchange capacity from analytical data. Preliminary measurements on liberation of high-temperature water tend to substantiate certain portions of the hypothesis, but further data will be required in order to obtain confirmation. Sufficient reliable data probably are not available to permit rigorous calculation of structural formulas.
Chlamydial Antibodies , Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines and Bacterial Significance among Infertile Women

Accepted 9 December , 2015 Abstract The current study was done to investigate the relation between the bacteria different kindsandinfertility in women, the study include 108 specimen from infertile and fertilewomen with ages range (20-40years) these specimens collected from infertility and gynecology center of Maternity and Pediatrics Teaching Hospital in Babylon province. Urine, vaginal swabs and blood samples were used in this study. Bacteriological diagnosis for urine and vaginal swabs accomplished and showed variation in types and number of isolates.The isolates can be distributed as follows:Gram positive bacterial isolates include Staphylococcus aureus 48 (30%) 18 isolates urine and 30vaginal swabs, Escherichia coli24urine and 19 vaginal swabs43(26.8%). Female infertility divided according to their causesinto different types and the detection by anti-Chlamydia trachomatis antibodies reveals high concentration of IgG (46%) in the women with Polycystic ovary syndrome group,while the second high concentration (36%) in women with primary infertility . Immunological test of Cytokine IL-10 in patient show decreased in their concentration 11.5pg/ml compared with healthy at P< 0.05 especially at polycystic ovary syndrome group.
Room temperature pulsed laser deposited ( Ti , Al ) C x N 1 x coatings — chemical , structural , mechanical and tribological properties

The aim of the present work was the improvement of titanium–aluminium nitride (TiAlN) coating by the solid-solution hardening with carbon atoms leading to titanium–aluminium carbonitride (Ti,Al)CxN1 x coatings with varying carbon (x) and nitrogen contents. The request of low deposition temperatures which are indispensable for the coating of heat-sensitive materials like tool steels of high hardness and polymers was reached by the application of the room temperature pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique. A Nd:YAG laser of 1064 nm wavelength operated at two different laser pulse energies was used in the ablation experiments of pure TiAl targets (50 at.% Al) in various C2H2–N2 gas mixtures. The results reveal a strong dependency of the gas mixture on the C and N content of the coatings. Furthermore, the different pulse energies change the ratio of Ti/Al atoms in the grown coatings. The crystallization was influenced too by the pulse energy and, thus, the energy and distribution of the atoms, ions and clusters. For the hardness and elastic moduli, two distinct stages in dependency on the crystallinity were found: High carbon contents lead due to the formation of pure carbon precipitations, found in the Raman investigations, to the destruction of the crystallin structure and, thus, to up to 60% lower hardnesses and elastic moduli. A low friction behaviour was found for coatings of the higher Al contents deposited at lower laser pulse energies due to the formation of carbon rich transfer layers on both the coatings and the Al2O3 counterparts. D 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 81.15 Fg; 46.55 +d
RETHINKING THE EFFECT OF INFORMALITY ON INCLUSIVE GROWTH: LESSONS FROM COLOMBIA AND SOUTH AFRICA

This brief was developed based on the Comparative Evidence Paper Rethinking the effect of informality on inclusive growth: lessons from Colombia and South Africa for their regions. That document was authored by an inter-regional team of researchers, based on regional evidence, as well as original data collection and analysis on a particular research topic. All ELLA publications can be found in the programme website. DPRU (Development Policy Research Unit), South Africa POLICY BRIEF
Bioremediation of Caffeine-Contaminated Soil by Immobilized Yeast – A Laboratory Based Study

The aim of this work was to ascertain the efficacy of immobilised yeast for the remediation of caffeine in soil under laboratory condition. Biostimulation with inorganic nutrients and bioaugmentation with caffeine utilizing single and mixed yeast cultures viz., Mixed culture 1, Mixed culture 2, Mixed culture 3 and Mixed culture 4 were employed as remedial options for the removal of caffeine from contaminated soil. To promote caffeine removal, biowaste materials (wheat bran, sawdust, peanut hull powder) were used as biocarriers for immobilization of caffeine degrading yeast species following the method of physical adsorption. We constructed laboratory biopiles to compare the treatment bioaugmentation with bioaugmentation combined biostimulation using single and mixed cultures of immobilized yeast. Maximum removal of caffeine was found to be 98.3 % after 24 days in the biostimulated soil which was bioaugmented with sawdust immobilized yeast mixed culture No. 4 consisting of three yeast species viz., Trichosporon asahii, Candida tropicalis and Candida inconspicua. Dehydrogenase activity in the soil was remarkably enhanced to 639 μg TPF g soil and microbial numbers were also increased for the soil treated under the same conditions described above. Phytotoxicity assay confirmed the reduction of caffeine toxicity in the contaminated soil after treatment. Thus, sawdust immobilized mixed yeast culture No. 4 could serve as potential tool for the remediation of caffeine from contaminated soil. 2012 pp. 385-392 Vol. 11 ISSN: 0972-6268 No. 3 Nature Environment and Pollution Technology An International Quarterly Scientific Journal Original Research Paper Nat. Env. & Poll. Tech. Website: www.neptjournal. com Received: 20/2/2012 Accepted: 5/3/2012
Grain Size Effects in Indentation Response of Nan crystalline Tungsten – A Molecular Dynamic Simulation

In this study we tried a series of nanoindentation test on nanocrystalline (nc) tungsten (W) specimens, using Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations and Embedded Atom Method (EAM). We studied the grain size effect in the range of 6 to 15 nm, with a penetration rate of 5 Å /ps and at room temperature 300 K. We found the reduced elastic modulus Er and the Young elastic modulus E dependent of grain size. On the other hand, we investigated the effect of the penetration velocity ranging from 3 Å/ps to 5 Å/ps. We found that the elastic modulus increases when the rate of penetration increases. The found results are in good agreement with data experiment and the literature.
Revision 2 1 Oceanic lavas sampling the high 3 He / 4 He mantle reservoir : Primitive , 2 depleted , or re-enriched ? 3

9 Helium isotopes are used as a tracer for primitive reservoirs that have persisted in 10 the Earth’s mantle. Basalts erupted at several intraplate oceanic islands, including Hawaii, 11 Iceland, Galapagos and Samoa, have hosted the highest He/He ratios (> 30 Ra, where 12 Ra is atmospheric He/He ratio) globally that are far in excess of the He/He typical of 13 the upper mantle sampled at mid-ocean ridges (8 Ra). These lavas have been suggested to 14 be melts of a primitive, or possibly slightly depleted, mantle reservoir, i.e., either fertile 15 or a depleted peridotite. Here we report evidence for geochemical enrichment in the high 16 He/He mantle sampled by lavas with the highest He/He from Hawaii, Samoa and 17 possibly Galapagos. The titanium concentrations in high He/He lavas from Samoa are 18 too high to be explained by melts of a mantle peridotite, even at infinitesimally small 19 degrees of melting, and the elevated Ti corresponds to elevated Pb-isotopic ratios. The 20 highest He/He lavas from Loihi, Hawaii also have Ti concentrations that are too high to 21 be melts of primitive mantle peridotite at the degrees of melt extraction proposed for this 22 ocean island. Thus, Ti-rich material must have been added to the high He/He mantle 23 reservoir, and this material is likely to be recycled mafic crust similar to MORB-like 24 eclogite, which is consistent with the elevated Pb-isotopic ratios. We show that 25 fractionation corrected, major element compositions of high He/He alkalic lavas can be 26 satisfactorily modeled by melting and melt-rock interaction scenario in a fertile 27 2 peridotite-MORB-eclogite hybrid system. Primitive peridotitic and recycled eclogitic 28 reservoirs are suggested to be intimately associated in the deepest mantle and high 29 He/He lavas from several localities may sample a mantle source that hosts a component 30 of recycled oceanic crust. 31
Resting-state hippocampal connectivity correlates with symptom severity in post-traumatic stress disorder

Department of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada Neuroscience & Mental Health Program, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Canada Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Directorate of Mental Health, Canadian Forces Health Services, Ottawa, Canada Canadian Forces Environmental Medicine Establishment, Toronto, Canada Defence Research and Development Canada, Toronto, Canada Division of Neurology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
OriginalArticle New molars of Elachistoceras ( Cetartiodactyla , Bovidae ) from the Late Miocene Padhri , Northern Pakistan : rare finding

Elachistoceras is the smallest bovid recorded from the Mio-Pliocene of the Siwaliks. Fossil record of Elachistoceras is poor. Two lower molars belonging to the tiny bovid are collected from the Padhri outcrops of the Middle Siwaliks, northern Pakistan. The description of the newly collected sample is the focus of the article.