Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Genetic Variability and Association Analysis of SomeQuantitative Characters in Sweet Corn

The objective of this study was to determine genetic variability, heritability, genetic advance, genotypic and phenotypic correlations of yield, yield components and kernel quality traits in seven sweet corn varieties. The present research was conducted during 2009 and 2010 growing season in Eskisehir, midwestern Turkey. The trials were set up in randomised complete block design with four replications. Analysis of variance observed highly significant differences for all the examined traits in both years. Sugar content, soluble solid concentration and number of leaves per plant revealed the highest genotypic and phenotypic coefficient of variation values. The high heritability estimates coupled with high genetic advance for sugar content, soluble solid concentration and starch content. Positive correlations were revealed between yield (husked, dehusked and fresh kernel) and yield components except plant height and 1000 seed weight. Negative correlations were found between kernel quality and yield and yield related traits. It can be concluded that, husked ear weight and dehusked ear weight could be used as the main criteria for yield improvement. It should be unfeasible to develop sweet corn varieties with satisfactory yield potential and improved kernel quality for the different sweet corn markets.
How valid can data fusion be

"Data fusion techniques typically aim to achieve a complete data file from different sources which do not contain the same units. Traditionally, this is done on the basis of variables common to all files. It is well known that those approaches establish conditional independence of the specific variables given the common variables, although they may be conditionally dependent in reality. We discuss the objectives of data fusion in the light of their feasibility and distinguish four levels of validity that a fusion technique may achieve. For a rather general situation, we derive the feasible set of correlation matrices for the variables not jointly observed and suggest a new quality index for data fusion. Finally, we present a suitable and effcient multiple imputation procedure to make use of auxiliary information and to overcome the conditional independence assumption. " (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
Modelling light scattering by mineral dust using spheroids : assessment of applicability

We study the applicability of spheroidal model particles for simulating the single-scattering optical properties of mineral dust aerosols. To assess the range of validity of this model, calculations are compared to laboratory observations for five different dust samples at two wavelengths. We further investigate whether the best-fit shape distributions of spheroids for different mineral dust samples have any similarities that would allow us to suggest a generic first-guess shape distribution for suspended mineral dust. We find that best-fit shape distributions vary considerably between samples and even between wavelengths, making definitive suggestions for a shape distribution difficult. The best-fit shape distribution also depends strongly on the refractive index assumed and the cost function adopted. However, a power-law shape distribution which favours those spheroids that depart most from the spherical shape is found to work well in most cases. To reproduce observed asymmetry parameters, best results are obtained with a power-law shape distribution with an exponent around three.
Incentives and Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence from a Seemingly Inefficient Traditional Labor Contract

This paper investigates the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in formulating rice planting contracts in the Philippines. In our study area, despite the potential for pervasive opportunistic behaviors by workers, a fixed-wage (FW) contract has been dominant for rice planting. To account for the use of this seemingly inefficient contractual arrangement, we adopt a hybrid experimental method of framed field experiments by randomized controlled trials (RCT), in which we randomly assign three distinct labor contracts—FW, individual piece rate (IPR), and group piece rate (GPR)—and artefactual field experiments to elicit social preference parameters. Through analyses of individual workers' performance data from framed field experiments and data on social preferences elicited by artefactual field experiments, three main empirical findings emerge. First, our basic results show the positive incentive effects in IPR and, equivalently, moral hazard problems in FW, which are consistent with standard theoretical implications. Second, non-monetary incentives seem to play a significant role under FW: while social preferences such as altruism and guilt aversion play an important role in stimulating incentives under FW, introducing monetary incentives crowds out such intrinsic motivations, and other nonmonetary factors such as positive peer effects significantly enhance incentives under a FW contract. Finally, as alternative hypotheses, our empirical results are not necessarily consistent with the hypothesis of the interlinked contract of labor and credit transactions in mitigating moral hazard problems, the optimality of FW contract under large effort measurement errors, and the intertemporal incentives arising from performance-based contract renewal probabilities. Hence, considering the interplay of intrinsic motivations and monetary incentives as well as the monetary costs of mitigating moral hazard and free-riding problems through IPR, we may conclude that seemingly perverse traditional contractual arrangements might be socially efficient.
Differences in innovativeness , proactiveness and competitive aggressiveness in relation to entrepreneurial motives

Motivation of entrepreneurs must be appropriate to the level of risk they are facing in their businesses. Some entrepreneurs can perceive profit or financial motivation as a subsidiary motive and can start their own business with non-financial motives, e.g., apprehending business as a mission. The aim of this article is to identify the relationship between entrepreneurial motives and the selected constructs of entrepreneurial orientation (innovativeness, proactiveness and competitive aggressiveness) on the case study of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Czech Republic. We have analyzed the data collected in 2015 from 1141 SMEs in 14 regions of Czech Republic. For the purposes of this article we focused on the motives for doing business, which were analyzed for the sample as a whole and also for two selected groups of the respondents. The first group (330 respondents) consisted of entrepreneurs who featured money as the most important motive for starting up a business, while the second group (251 respondents) consisted of those entrepreneurs who featured their life mission as the main reason for starting a business. The main results of Received: July, 2017 1st Revision: September, 2017 Accepted: November, 2017 DOI: 10.14254/20718330.2017/10-4/16 Journal of International Studies S ci en ti fi c P a pe rs © Foundation of International Studies, 2017 © CSR, 2017 Journal of International Studies Vol.10, No.4, 2017 208 our paper confirm the existence of statistically significant differences in innovativeness, proactiveness and competitive aggressiveness between the entrepreneurs motivated by money and those motivated by mission. Regardless the entrepreneurial motives the vast majority of the surveyed entrepreneurs consider innovativeness and proactiveness to be important for their companies. On the other hand, most of them do not realize aggressive activities against the competition they are facing.
Real-time classification of simultaneous hand and wrist motions using Artificial Neural Networks with variable threshold outputs

Limb motions normally involve more than one degree of freedom combined in a coordinated manner. Although prosthetic hardware today could be combined for a highly motorized limb replacement, the control options available to amputees are so limited that this approach is rarely used. In this work, we introduce a classification strategy for the real-time simultaneous prediction of the individual movements present in natural motions. The real-time evaluation of this strategy based on a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) with variable threshold outputs resulted in high motion completion rates. Moreover, the MLP alone showed higher offline accuracy than previously reported. This classifier was developed and evaluated in BioPatRec, an open source framework for advanced prosthetic control strategies based in pattern recognition algorithms. The source code and the data obtained in this study are freely available to be used for further algorithms development and benchmarking.
Identities in the Commons: The Dynamics of Norms and Social Capital

Abstract This paper provides a formal analysis of the evolution of cooperation in the management of common property resources. We develop a dynamic model that includes moral norms or a sense of 'identity,' and show that cooperation may  but need not  be an equilibrium outcome in the absence of intervention by a managing agency or punishment by peers. We demonstrate that outside intervention has ambiguous effects when identity matters  it may reduce welfare of the agents harvesting the stock.
SAR Technologies for Topographic Mapping

Although Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been widely used in various forms of mapping for several decades, two factors have created new interest in its utilization for topographic mapping. The first is the emergence of Digital Terrain Models (DTMs) in an ever-increasing range of applications, for which digital data from remote sensing sources are becoming increasingly competitive. Secondly, the launch of SAR satellites and the development of associated technologies will provide new mapping solutions in cloud-covered areas of the world where costs and time scales are currently prohibitive. The thrust of this paper will be to summarise the status of the SAR-based technologies which are currently able to provide DTMs and associated products, or will shortly be able to do so. STARMAP, Intera's name for its process for DTM creation from airborne SAR, is now a mature, commercially successful implementation and will be described in some detail. Other technologies which will soon be available commercially will also be reviewed for their salient features, although in less detail. The systems to be addressed include satellite stereo SAR, and airborne and satellite SAR interferometry. It is concluded that a combination of the two SAR satellite technologies will be able to provide DTM extraction for much of the world at the DTED level 1 standard and better in some circumstances. Airborne interferometry on the other hand will be able to provide DTMs at a much denser grid spacing and at a considerably better vertical resolution. The technologies are complementary when coverage and cost factors are considered.
The impact of a stuttering disorder on Western Australian children and adolescents

In this study, we examined the impact of a stuttering disorder on children (n=50) and adolescents (n=45) living in Western Australia. We compared the reactions and experiences of children and adolescents who stutter to children and adolescents who do not stutter. We compared the participants who stuttered and the fluent participants using adapted versions of the Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering (OASES). We also examined the relationship between biopsychosocial impact and stuttered speech frequency. We saw higher levels of adverse impact in young people who stuttered compared to their fluent peers. In addition, we found moderate correlations between OASES scores and stuttered speech frequency in children. These findings provided a baseline for establishing the degree of negative impact that a stuttering disorder may bring about in children and adolescents. The experiences of young people who stuttered were significantly different from the experiences of young people who were typ.
“Rentier states” or the relationship between regime stability and exercising power in post-Soviet Central Asia

The paper intends to give an insight into the relations of the economic and political systems of the Central Asian republics using the theoretical framework of the “rentier economy” and “rentier state” approach. The main findings of the paper are that two (Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan) of the five states examined are commodity export dependent “full-scale” rentier states. The two political systems are of a stable neo-patrimonial regime character, while the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, poor in natural resources but dependent on external rents, may be described as “semi-rentier” states or “rentier economies”. They are politically more instable, but have an altogether authoritarian, oligarchical “clan-based” character. Uzbekistan with its closed economy, showing tendencies of economic autarchy, is also a potentially politically unstable clan-based regime. Thus, in the Central Asian context, the rentier state or rentier economy character affects the political stability of the actual regimes rather than having a direct impact on whether power is exercised in an autocratic or democratic way.
Effect of thiamine and vitamin C on tissue lead accumulation following experimental lead poisoning in Cyprinus carpio

The present study was conducted to evaluate the possible ameliorative effects of vitamin C and thiamine on lead accumulation in kidney, liver, muscle, brain and gill of experimentally lead-poisoned common carp. At the beginning of the experiment, fish (n=120) were divided into 4 groups randomly with group 1 being considered as the control group. Groups 2, 3 and 4 were exposed to lead acetate (5 mg/L, 15 days); groups 3 and 4 received vitamin C (500 mg/kg feed) and thiamine (50 mg/kg feed) during lead acetate exposure, respectively. Following this, it was observed that lead exposure caused a significant (p < 0.05) increase in lead content in all examined tissues of fish in group 2 in comparison to control group. It was also found that thiamine supplementation slight ly decreased the augmented levels of lead in the muscle, brain and gill tissues, which was not significantly different from that of the control group. Similarly, vitamin C supplementation reduced the augmented concentrations of lead in the muscle to the levels that were not significantly different from that of the control group. Based on the present results, neither thiamine nor vitamin C was effective in providing a significant reduction of tissue lead burden in groups 3 and 4 as compared to group 2. Thus, monotherapy with such vitamins cannot be proposed as a suitable therapeutic approach for the effective reduction of the tissue lead burden in common carp. However, further investigations using other dosing regimens of each vitamin or combined treatment with chelators are required to reach such a conclusion.
Determinants of online trust and their impact on online purchase intention

Abundant literature has examined online trust. However the different approaches were scarcely integrated to address the determinants of online trust and their impacts on online purchase intention. An integrative approach to online trust is adopted in this paper. A survey is carried out on a sample of 401 online consumers in Indonesia. The findings show that purchase intention is significantly influenced by online trust. Besides, there is significant impact of personality-based trust (benevolence, integrity and credibility), cognitive-based trust (reputation and cost benefit calculation) and institutional-based trust (situation normality) on online trust.
A study of structured and unstructured group techniques utilizing play media with aggressive preschool children

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Lack of Adequate Parenting: A Potential Risk Factor for Aggression among Adolescents

Adolescence has been considered as a period of challenges and strains. Aggressive behavior usually escalates during this period due to multiple reasons (e.g., physiological changes, need for independence, establishment of new identity, and role conflict). Parents play vital role in managing and monitoring adolescents’ social relationships and behavior (Parke and Burial, 1998). A lack of adequate parental role as a manager is a potential risk factor that is related to aggressiveness and juvenile delinquency (Patterson and Stouthamer-Loeber, 1984). The present study was carried out to investigate the role of demographic variables (viz., parents’ education and parents’ income) and parenting styles in aggression among late adolescents. The sample consisted of boys and girls from 9th and 10th grades, age ranged between 15 and 17 years. Sample was recruited from public and private schools of Punjab, Pakistan. Parents were approached through students at their homes. Data was collected by using Parenting Style Questionnaire (Robinson, Mandleco, Olsen, and Hart, 1995) and Aggression Questionnaire (Buss and Perry, 1992). Significant gender difference appeared on total aggression and its components except for hostility. A considerable amount of variance in total aggression was accounted for by authoritarian parenting, permissive parenting, and income of parents. Parenting styles predicted distinctively in four components of aggression.
Effect of Kinetin (6-FAP) and Cycocel (CCC) on Growth, Metabolism and Cellular Organelles in Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Under Water Stress

The coarse grains are dual purpose nutritive crop (mineral matters, calcium and phosphorus is specifically high) and nutritional quality of stower is better than rice and wheat. Water stress impairs water relations, stomatal conductance, photosynthesis, respiration, carbohydrates, amino acids, protein metabolism and synthesis of plant hormones (Lockhart 1965, Hsiao 1973). Seed treatments and foliar application of plant growth regulators had been shown to improve these physiological and biochemical indices under water stress. The declining trend in the area under the crop also makes it imperative that productivity increase has to be given additional emphasis by striving for breakthrough in technology in research. The cereal is likely to become the food of the elite classes when industry is able to successfully exploit the diversified uses. Therefore, the study was undertaken to understand the effect of kinetin and cycocel International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 8 (2017) pp. 2711-2719 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
Organization Theory and Methodology

The foundations are being put in place for a revolution in the science of organizations. Some major analytical building blocks for the development of a theory of organizations are outlined and discussed in this paper. This development of organization theory will be hastened by increased understanding of the importance of the choice of definitions, tautologies, analytical techniques, and types of evidence. The two literatures of agency theory are briefly discussed in light of these issues. Because accounting is an integral part of the structure of every organization, the development of a theory of organizations will be closely associated with the development of a theory of accounting. This theory will explain why organizations take the form they do, why they behave as they do, and why accounting practices take the form they do. Because such positive theories as these are required for purposeful decision making, their development will provide a better scientific basis for the decisions of managers, standard-setting boards, and government regulatory bodies.
Profitability and socio-economic analysis of beekeeping and honey production in Karaj state, Iran

Despite the extensive beekeeping practices in Karaj state, Iran relevant information related to socioeconomic profiles of beekeeping and factors affecting the adoption of improved beekeeping technologies were lacking. To understand these conditions, 176 beekeepers from eight regions were interviewed using exhaustive questionnaires. The objectives of this study were to identify determinants of improved box hive adoption by the beekeepers; and to analyze financial benefits from adopting improved box hive technology. It was found that credit, knowledge, education level of household head, perception and visits to demonstrations positively and significantly influenced adoption of box hive. The average annual productivities of colonies were 8.64±5.54 kg and 3.89±2.52 kg honey/colony/annum for modern and traditional hives, respectively. The average annual household earnings from beekeeping was relatively high ($68,845.6), and contributes to an average of 26.64±28.95% of the total annual income of beekeepers which shows that beekeeping plays a vital role in increasing and diversifying the incomes of rural communities.
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF YIELD AND YIELD CONTRIBUTING TRAITS OF DIFFERENT GENOTYPES IN BREAD WHEAT

Ten different genotypes of bread wheat were evaluated for analysis the yield and yield related traits. The objectives of the study was to study the performances of some wheat varieties for grain yield and its contributing characters and study the heritability for grain yield and its contributing characters. The study revealed that there have significant differences among the different genotypes of bread wheat. From the observation it is clear that Akbar and Shourav have highest height and they were 69.3cm. Sufi was the smallest variety (54.33cm). Shatabdi and Barkat had highest number of tillers (3.67). Pradiv had the highest spike length (16.20cm), relatively high number of spikelet/spike and grains weight in per spike was highest (2.33gm). Some characters of bread wheat are highly heritable such as length of spike, 100-grain weight, yield etc. So these characters would be effective for selection in breeding programme. Sufi and Gourav varieties are semi dwarf. Pradiv, Shatabdi and Prativa have the higher yield than other varieties are semi dwarf in nature. The degree of relationship varied from genotype to genotype.
Study of serum angiotensin converting enzyme levels in pemphigus vulgaris

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the serum angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) levels in patients with pemphigus vulgaris compared with healthy volunteers. Methods: In this study, 40 patients were selected in the study group with pemphigus vulgaris and 40 patients were selected in the control group i.e. healthy group. Serum ACE levels were determined by spectrophotometric method. Results: The mean ACE levels in study group and control group were 26.98±15.87 and 32.57±20.98 respectively. There was no statistically significant difference between both the groups (p=0.11). The mean ACE levels were 26.25±12.36 and 26.14±13.89 in females and males respectively in the study group which showed no significant difference (p=0.95). In the control group, the mean ACE levels were 26.22±19.77 and 38.54±11.11 in females and males respectively which showed a statistically significant difference (p=0.04). The mean ACE levels were higher in healthy males when compared to the males in the study group. The mean serum levels in females of both the groups were almost same. Conclusions: The serum ACE level was considerably lower in male study group i.e. pemphigus vulgaris patients compared with male control group i.e. healthy group, despite lack of any significant difference of serum ACE level between pemphigus and control group. Hence, ACE might have some relation with pemphigus vulgaris especially in male patients.