Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Studies on Improve Survivability and Shelf Life of Carrier Using Liquid Inoculation of Pseudomonas striata

ABSTRACT Biofertilizers are also known as microbial inoculants or bioinoculants. It is a product of selected, beneficial and live microorganisms which helps to improve plant growth and productivity, mainly through supply of plant nutrients. Death of the organisms in the inoculated seed is one of the important factors contributing the failure of inoculation response in field condition. This present study was conducted to improve the shelf life and survivability of inoculant in liquid form. Pseudomonas straita was used as an inoculant which having phosphate solubilizing capacity Three different treatment like vermiculite, lignite and liquid inoculants were used for survival of Pseudomonas straita. Four different broths were used such as GPS (Glucose peptone broth), PVB (Pikovasky broth), NB (Nutrient broth) and PSB (Peptone sodiumchloride broth) to prepare liquid bioinoculants. Upon that liquid inoculant shows high phosphate solubilizing efficiency than other two treatments and also luquid inoculant show more survivability of Pseudomonas straita than other two treatments. Based on the results, liquid inoculant is considered as best bioinoculants in growth of paddy than control and other two treatments.
The Role of the Ocean in the Seasonal Cycle of the Hadley Circulation

Abstract The influence of ocean heat transport on the seasonal cycle of the Hadley circulation is investigated using idealized experiments with a climate model. It is found that ocean heat transport plays a fundamental role in setting the structure and intensity of the seasonal Hadley cells. The ocean’s influence can be understood primarily via annual mean considerations. By cooling the equatorial regions and warming the subtropics in a year-round sense, the ocean heat transport allows for regions of SST maxima to occur off the equator in the summer hemisphere. This leads to large meridional excursions of convection over the ocean and a seasonal Hadley circulation that is strongly asymmetric about the equator. The broadening of the latitudinal extent of the SST maximum and the convecting regions by the ocean heat transport also weakens the annual mean Hadley circulation in a manner that is consistent with simpler models. The results are discussed in the context of prior studies of the controls on the stre.
abundance and diversity attributes in small-mammal communities

Small mammals can be useful indicators of sustainability in terrestrial ecosystems; hence, research and inventory of populations and communities have increased dramatically in recent years. Sampling methodologies to measure abundance and diversity attributes include removal- (snap and pitfall traps) and live-trapping, with the former predominat- ing. We tested the hypothesis that removal-trapping of small mammals would alter pat- terns of abundance and species diversity compared with control (nonremoval) sites. Small-mammal communities were intensively sampled in coastal coniferous forest habi- tat in southern British Columbia, Canada. In a pulse-removal experiment, mean abun- dance of Oregon voles (Microtus oregoni) was significantly lower in removal than in con- trol sites, whereas abundance of shrews (Sorex spp.) and species diversity were signifi- cantly higher in removal than in control sites. Abundances of 3 uncommon species, the long-tailed vole (M. Iongicaudus), southern red-backed vole (Clethrionomys gapperi), and American shrew-mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii), were significantly higher in removal than in control sites. Our results indicate that removal-trapping can disrupt small-mammal pop- ulations and yield spurious values for community characteristics. Ethical concerns notwithstanding, ecological studies of small mammals should use live-trapping to yield accurate estimates of population and diversity attributes.
OPTIMIZATION OF METHODS ORIENTED TO OMEGA EGGS CREATION IN THE SLOVAK REPUbLIC

The production of omega eggs was studied experimentally on the RIR layer hens after their feeding with addition of 0.5 % refined fish oil applied into feeding mixture HYD - 11. It was found that fish oil did not influence the production and quality of experi mental eggs. The level of total poly-unsaturated fatty acids increased from 11.24 to 12.28 %, from total fat content egg yolk. The amount of omega-3 fatty acids (especially of docosahexaenoic acid - DHA) increased by 350 % in comparison to control eggs, the eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) increased from zero to 0.135 %. The ratio of omega-3 fatty acids improved from 10.08 to 3.26, that is, by 311 %. Using these techniques the omega-eggs are continually produced in large - scale farm for five years already.
On the Timing of Innovation in Stochastic Schumpeterian Growth Models

Recent work has revived the Schumpeterian hypothesis that recessions facilitate innovation and growth. But a major source of productivity growth, research and development, is actually procyclical. This paper argues that while it is optimal to concentrate growth-enhancing activities in downturns, dynamic spillovers inherent to the R&D process lead private agents to concentrate too much of their R&D activity in booms, precisely when its social cost is highest. Thus, while previous literature has argued recessions promote growth and intertemporal substitution is a desirable consequence of fluctuations, in the case of R&D recessions discourage growth and intertemporal substitution proves to be a social liability.
ANARCHIST ABOLITIONISM: THE CONTEXT AND MEANING OF KROPOTKIN'S PRISON WRITINGS

The use of the prison is a highly debatable topic. Its main aims are to deter and reform criminals, but recent reports show high recidivism rates which suggests that the prison does not work in reducing crime. Penal abolitionists oppose the current use of the prison and wish for its removal. In line with their views, Peter Kropotkin also wished for the removal of the prison. He believed it was a harmful institution just as abolitionists did but Kropotkin further proposed a vision of an ideal society which operated without prison. In contemporary society a world without prison seems unimaginable, however, Kropotkin did not just oppose the operation of the prison but in fact opposed all forms of authority and wished for their removal. He stated that his ideal society without hierarchy and governance would prosper and crime would reduce. This thesis explores Kropotkin’s thoughts on crime and punishment. It aims, by using Skinner’s method, to set a historical context in order to explore if Kropotkin’s anarchist or abolitionist views are reflected within his prison writings. To set such a context, Kropotkin’s life will be explored. The events and influences which would have contributed to his thought will be uncovered and in addition a selection of the literature he read will be examined. This will allow for the reader to develop a similar knowledge-base to that which Kropotkin would have had and therefore will allow for an understanding of where Kropotkin’s thought initially came from. After a close examination of these aspects of Kropotkin’s life and thought, and after an in depth study of his prison writings, it is reasonable to conclude that his work is both anarchist and abolitionist. This shows a great overlap between the two differing schools of thought.
Declining atmospheric CO2 during the late Middle Eocene climate transition

The transition from the extreme greenhouse of the early Paleogene (∼52 Ma) to the present-day icehouse is the most prominent change in Earth’s Cenozoic climate history. During the late Middle Eocene climate transition (42-38 Ma), which preceded the onset of long-lived, continental-scale ice sheets, there is concordant evidence for brief pulses (<1 m.y. in length) of global warmth and ice sheet growth but few constraints on atmospheric CO2. Here we estimate the concentration of atmospheric CO2 during this critical interval using stomatal indices of fossil Metasequoia needles from ten levels in an exceptionally well-preserved core from the Giraffe kimberlite locality in northwestern Canada. Reconstructed CO2 concentrations are mainly between 700 to 1000 ppm, but include a secular decline to 450 ppm towards the top of the investigated section. Because the CO2 threshold for nucleating continental ice sheets at this time was ∼500 to 750 ppm, the CO2 decline is compatible with a rapid (<104 yrs) transition from warm, largely ice-free conditions to cooler climates with ice sheets. These fossils provide direct evidence that high-latitude deciduous forests thrived in the geological past under CO2 concentrations that will likely be reached within the 21st century (500-1000 ppm).
Translating stakeholder pressures into environmental performance – the mediating role of green HRM practices

This paper contributes to extant research on green human resource management (HRM) relying on the instrumental value of stakeholder theory, which implies that stakeholders impact on company decisions and their development of organizational resources and performance. Following that theory, the study conceives green HRM practices as a set of management processes that companies implement for responding to stakeholder pressures on environmental issues. Accordingly with those premises, we empirically test the distinct role that different green HRM practices (i.e. green hiring, green training and involvement, and green performance management and compensation) play in mediating the relationship between pressures on environmental issues from two specific external stakeholders (i.e. customers and regulatory stakeholders) and environmental performance. Our findings, based on a multi-respondent survey in which the respondents were Human Resource Managers and Supply Chain Managers operating in Italy, confirm the hypothesized mediation model. Our results (as well as their implications) are discussed in light of the recent calls to broaden the scope of HRM research, considering the embeddedness of the company in a socio-political context and exploring the role that actors and factors outside the company play in shaping its green HRM practices.
Attracting Young IT Professionals: An Empirical Study Using the Theory of Attractive Quality

Attracting and recruiting qualified information technology (IT) professionals remains one key issue for executives for numerous years. The so-called war for IT talent illustrates the hard competition of employers for well-educated IT professionals who develop and advance future technologies. Thus, employers are required to court the young professionals' attention to recruit the best of them. Previous research lists certain attractiveness attributes but leaves their interrelations open. We therefore evaluate established attractiveness attributes referring to the Theory of Attractive Quality. To answer the research question? What attracts young IT professionals to an employer? ' we conduct an empirical study surveying 223 young IT professionals and evaluate 24 attractiveness attributes that employers should or even need to provide in order to recruit young IT professionals.
Exploring Links Between Dynamic Capabilities Perspective and Resource-Based View: A Literature Overview

Abstract The dynamic capabilities view posits that a firm’s success is largely driven by its ability to adapt to a changing environment to secure value creating potential and, thus achieve a competitive advantage. The dynamic capabilities perspective has attracted much scholarly attention in the last two decades, as reflected in the proliferation of conceptual and research articles in the strategic management literature. Knowledge about the relationship between dynamic capabilities and other theoretical concepts within the strategic management field remains limited. This paper therefore synthesizes the literature and uses it to develop a more clear relationship between notions of dynamic capabilities, resources, assets, competencies and static capabilities. Potential areas of future research are also outlined.
The Relationship between Psychological Capital, Educational Self-Regulatory and Intelligence Beliefs with Students’ Academic Performance in the University of Applied Sciences in Abdanan County

The present study investigates the relationship between psychological capital, educational self-regulatory and intelligence beliefs with students’ academic performance in University of Applied Sciences of Abdanan County. The research is of correlational studies. The study population consisted of all students at Applied Science university in Abadan who were enrolled in the academic year 2016-2017. The sample included 207 students (97 girls and 110 boys), selected by simple random sampling. In order to measure the variables, the Bouffard self-adjusting questionnaire (1995), Mental Faith Scale of Brown and Ryan (MFS), (2003) and Luthans’s Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ) (2007) were used. To analyze the data, we used Pearson correlation and regression through the entry method. The results of this study showed that there is a significant positive relationship between psychological capital and educational self- regulatory with intelligence beliefs and in addition, there is a significant positive relationship between the four subscales of psychological capital (hope, resilience, optimism and self-efficacy) with academic performance.
Main problems of transport infrastructure development in Slovakia and effects on regional development

The aim of this article is to examine the development of transport infrastructure (modernisation of railway tracks and development of the motorway and expressway network) and its possible effects on regional development in Slovakia. Accessible transport infrastructure (mainly the motorway network) has influenced many decisions concerning the location of industrial investments. The impact of transport infrastructure on the reduction of regional disparities in Slovakia is limited mainly due to the concentration of transport infrastructure investment in the more developed regions of Slovakia. Poorer regions in eastern Slovakia and the southern part of Central Slovakia are still affected by the unfavourable level of accessibility to the transport infrastructure that creates important conditions affecting their development.
Speciation, mobility and adsorption effects of various metals in sediments in an agricultural area surrounding an uranium ore deposit (Nisa, Portugal)

The availability and mobility of metals in soil strongly depend on its sediments geochemical forms and, therefore, the sediments’ particles composition evaluation is more meaningful than the estimation of total soil concentrations, particularly when risk and toxicity are under evaluation. The objective of the present study is to evaluate speciation, fractionation and mobility of the considered metals in sediment samples collected in the surrounding area of a very important unexploited uranium ore deposit located in the Alto Alentejo region of Portugal (Nisa). Sequential Extraction and analytical determinations using X-ray fluorescence technique of the tested materials allowed the determination of mobile fractions and the estimation of ionic speciation. Mobility factor for different elements was estimated, with some of them presenting high mobility rates for exchangeable ions and oxide fractions. The results evidence a high geochemical availability for U, Mo, Nb, Ca, Mn, and, in some particular cases for As, V and Cr. This availability is considerably lower for other elements such as Cu, Zn, Pb, Fe, Ba and Zr. Geochemically, regarding its form of occurrence, most of these metals are incorporated in the sediment matrixes as (oxide) secondary minerals and/or included in iron-exchangeable-oxyhydroxides precipitates. By contrast, binocular microscopy observations and Scanning Electron Microscopy analysis evidenced that U, As, Nb, Mo, and (but with less evidence) V and Cr, are adsorbed in iron-oxyhydroxides-clay minerals, being present as aggregates and as coatings at the surface of primary grains. It was possible to prospect that the majority of the more mobile metals, including uranium, probably occur as oxide or in secondary forms minerals being its origin related with weathering and dissolution of primary sources and subsequent transportation by local water courses in the dissolved fractions as hydrochemical solutes or included in colloids. Later, these metals precipitated as secondary forms and/or were adsorbed preferentially at the surface of the iron-oxyhydroxides-clay minerals precipitates.
Relationship analysis between gene expression profiles and rat liver cirrhosis occurrence

Liver cirrhosis (LC) is a kind of liver disease which is pathologically characterized by abnormality and necrosis of hepatic cells, proliferation of fibrous tissue, nodular regeneration and pseudolobule formation. To explore the mechanism of LC occurrence at the level of mRNA, Rat Genome 230 2.0 Array was used to detect gene expression profiles of rat fibrotic livers in 3, 6 and 9 weeks after CCl4 treatment in this study. It was found that a total of 305 genes including 153 up-regulated, 150 down-regulated and 2 up/down-regulated genes, were related to LC occurrence. Then, k-means clustering was employed to classify above 305 genes into 5 clusters based on gene expression similarity, and EASE analysis further indicated that the above genes were mainly associated with metabolic process, stress reaction, cell growth and apoptosis/death. Thereafter, ingenuity pathway analysis (IPA) software was used to analyze potential effects of the above-mentioned 305 genes, and the results suggested that lipid metabolism and cell growth were inhibited while cell apoptosis/death was activated, but immune/inflammatory response was first activated and then inhibited. Furthermore, IPA also predicted that several signal pathways “ERK/MAPK Signaling”, “p38 MAPK”, “Endothelin-1 Signaling”, “Growth Hormone Signaling”, “LPS/IL-1-mediated inhibition of RXR function” and “IL-6 Signaling” were involved in regulating the occurrence of liver cirrhosis. It was concluded that 305 genes and 3 kinds of physiological activities were closely related to LC occurrence. Key words: Liver cirrhosis, gene expression profile, systems biology analysis, physiological activity.
Limited susceptibility of rhesus macaques to a cowpox virus isolated from a lethal outbreak among New World monkeys

Abstract This study was undertaken to investigate the susceptibility of rhesus monkeys to the calpox virus, an orthopoxvirus (OPXV) of the Cowpox virus species (CPXV), which is uniformly lethal in common marmosets. Six rhesus monkeys were either intravenously (i.v.) or intranasally (i.n.) exposed to the virus. Monitoring of the macaques after viral exposure included physical examinations, the determination of viral load by real-time PCR and plaque assay, and the analysis of humoral responses. Two i.v. inoculated animals developed numerous classical pox lesions that started after inoculation at days 7 and 10. Both animals became viremic and seroconverted. They exhibited maximal numbers of lesions of approximately 50 and 140 by day 21. One animal completely recovered, while the other one suffered from a phlegmonous inflammation of a leg initially induced by a secondarily infected pox lesion and was euthanized for animal welfare reasons. In contrast to previous pathogenicity studies with the calpox virus in marmosets, none of the four animals inoculated intranasally with doses of the calpox virus exceeding those used in marmosets by orders of magnitude showed typical clinical symptoms. No viral DNA was detectable in the blood of those animals, but three animals seroconverted. In two of these three animals, infectious virus was sporadically isolated from saliva. This indicates that rhesus monkeys are less susceptible to calpox virus infection, which limits their use in further intervention studies with OPXV.
The 3-D structure of SN 1987A's inner ejecta

Context. Observing the inner ejecta of a supernova is possible only in a handful of nearby supernova remnants. The core-collapse explosion mechanism has been extensively explored in recent models and predict large asymmetries. SN 1987A is the first modern stellar explosion that has been continuously observed from its beginning to the supernova remnant phase. Twenty years after the explosion, we are now able to observe the three-dimensional spatially resolved inner ejecta of this supernova. Aims. Detailed mapping of newly synthesised material and its radioactive decay daughter products sheds light on the explosion mechanism. This may reveal the geometry of the explosion and its connection to the equatorial ring and the outer rings around SN 1987A. Methods. We have used integral field spectroscopy to image the supernova ejecta and the equatorial ring in the emission lines of [Si I] + [Fe II] (λ1.64 μm) and He I (λ2.058 μm). The spectral information can be mapped into a radial velocity image revealing the expansion of the ejecta both as projected onto the sky and perpendicular to the sky plane. Results. The inner ejecta are spatially resolved in a North-South direction and are clearly asymmetric. Like the ring emission, the northern parts of the ejecta are blueshifted, while the material projected to the South of the supernova centre is moving away from us. We argue that the bulk of the ejecta is situated in the same plane as defined by the equatorial ring and does not form a bipolar structure as has been suggested. The exact shape of the ejecta is modelled and we find that an elongated triaxial ellipsoid fits the observations best. The velocity measured in the [Si I] + [Fe II] line corresponds to ∼3000 km s −1 and is the same as the width of the IR [Fe II] line profiles during the first years. From our spectral analyses of the ejecta spectrum we find that most of the He I, [Si I] and [Fe I-II] emission originates in the core material which has undergone explosive nucleosynthesis. The He I emission may be the result of α-rich freeze-out if the positron energy is deposited locally. Conclusions. Our observations clearly indicate a non-symmetric explosion mechanism for SN 1987A. The elongation and velocity asymmetries point towards a large-scale spatial non-spherical distribution as predicted in recent explosion models. The orientation of the ejecta in the plane of the equatorial ring argues against a jet-induced explosion through the poles due to stellar rotation.
The effect of temperature on growth and dry matter production of avocado plants

Grafted cv. Fuerte and cv. Hass avocado plants were grown for 81 days in sunlit growth chambers at day/night temperatures of 17/10, 21/14, 25/18, 29/22, 33/26 and 37/30¦C. Stem diameter, length of side branches, the number of leaves, leaf area and plant height, were all greater in the 21/14 to 33/26¦C temperature range, than at temperatures of 17/10¦C and especially 37/30¦C, which restricted growth in both cultivars. Total dry matter accumulation by Fuerte was greatest at 25/18¦C, while Hass was less affected by temperature extremes. High temperatures produced maximum dry matter in the leaves, while low temperatures produced it in the roots. Temperatures of 37/30¦C reduced root growth and dry matter accumulation by 60-70% as compared with the optimal treatments. It is suggested that under high temperature conditions measures should be taken to cool the soil. The Fuerte plants were more affected by temperature extremes than were the Hass plants which had a broader range of optimal growth response. Therefore cv. Hass could be expected to adapt better to extreme temperature conditions. Hass plants grown under high temperatures exhibited a greater leaf diffusive resistance than Fuerte and are therefore more capable of reducing water loss from the leaves. As temperatures decreased, more red pigment was evident in the young flush of both cultivars.