Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Triadimefon displays a cytokinin-like activity by exhibiting antisenescence SOME MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ABNORMALITIES IN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF BANANA TRIADIMEFON-TREATED CULTIVARS

Triadimefon (Bayleton) is a systemic fungicide in the triazole family of chemicals. Triadimefon treatment affected the growth and development of shoot-tip explants of three desert banana cultivars Hindi, Basrai and Williams. The viability and number of lateral bud induction in the three banana cultivars decreased with increasing triadimefon concentration. Most of the shoot-tip explants failed to grow at the lethal triadimefon concentration (60 mg/l). At the sub-lethal concentration (50 mg/l), the fresh weights of shoot clusters of cvrs. Hindi, Basrai and Williams were 0.11, 0.11 and 0.10 g/cluster, respectively. The number and length of leaves per shoot decreased with increasing triadimefon concentration. The efficiency of root system formation decreased as the concentration of the fungicide tested increased. Triadimefon treatment increased the photosynthetic pigments (Chl a, Chl b and carotenoids) and affected protein content. GLC analysis of non-saponifiable matter of shoots treated with triadimefon (50 mg/l) showed a decrease in the content of ∆5 sterols (sitosterol, stigmasterol and campesterol). It can be concluded that the triazole fungicide triadimefon inhibited the growth and development of the three desert banana cvrs. Hindi, Basrai and Williams.
Health-Saving Competence of Future Primary School Teachers: Indicators of Development

The research revealed an increasing interest of scientists to the problem of formation of health-saving competence of future primary school teachers. This tendency is due to the need for a social inquiry to modernize the training of future educators, to improve the individual areas. The authors of research developed an experimental test of the formation of health-saving competency of future primary school teachers. Achieving this goal involves the analysis of the state of development of a particular problem in pedagogical theory and practice. The study systematizes the physical, social and mental health life skills that contribute to the formation of a person’s health-saving competence. As a result of the study, a diagnostic system was developed to determine the health-saving competency of future primary school teachers. The analysis of scientific and pedagogical sources made it possible to identify such structural components of students’ preparation for the organization of health-saving activities of younger students as motivational, content, and technological ones. The motivational component was assessed according to the criterion of students’ positive attitude towards the organization of health-saving competence of younger students and the formation of a system of internal motives (interests, values, beliefs). Knowledge of the theoretical block was diagnosed with the help of tests that included the task of identifying the level of mastery of information about the essence of health-saving competence of children. The ability to develop their own variants of pedagogical health technologies for preserving younger students was assessed with the help of the creative tasks.
Breeding Bos javanicus d’Alton cattle in Eastern Indonesia: Cattle reproduction

Reproduction of Bos javanicus d’Alton (Bali) cattle was monitored on Lombok. Traditional management at Tandek included continuous mating and late weaning. Key elements of new management at Kelebuh included 6-month natural mating using a selected bull and weaning at 56 months of age. The Kelebuh bull mated with up to 5 females daily, achieving 52-69 pregnancies each year. Kelebuh weaning rates increased from ~65% to >90% with few calf losses. Kelebuh villagers found weaning easy and effective. At Tandek, weaning rate averaged 76% and calf mortality 13%. This study demonstrated that well-managed Bali cattle have high reproductive capacity.
Numerical Simulations of Terrestrial Heat Flow in the Beiras Region, Mainland Portugal

Numerical simulations of heat flow density have been made for ten localities in the Beiras region of central Portugal where observational data are absent. The procedure adopted is based on results of deep crustal geophysical surveys and consider that the heat flow measured at the surface of the Earth results from the addition of heat generated in the crust by radioactive sources to that coming from the mantle. Radioactive heat sources in the region are heterogeneous and heat flow values at the surface depends on the thickness of upper crustal layers. Geotherms were obtained considering heat flow by conduction in the vertical direction. The models employed make use of data derived from geophysical surveys of Moho depths and detailed results related with seismic velocity distribution in the crust. In addition, results of radiometric surveys were employed in deriving heat production values for upper layers of the crust. A value around 35 mW m-2 was assumed for heat flow from the mantle. The resulting heat flow density values are similar to those found for areas with similar tectonic characteristics in NW Africa and in Southern Portugal.
Teaching Grammar: Professional Needs of Saudi EFL Instructors

Grammar teaching has been a long tradition in EFL instruction in various parts of the world and Saudi Arabia is no exception to this. However, various approaches to teaching grammar have emerged over a period of time. For this, professional development (PD) programs are designed to meet the EFL teachers’ needs by enabling them to use a range of approaches and techniques. To do this successfully, professional needs analysis of teachers is essential. The present study investigates the beliefs of teachers regarding the use of various teaching approaches for grammar teaching and their need for professional development (PD). Questionnaire survey was conducted among 50 randomly chosen EFL teachers at a public sector university. The results showed that EFL teachers deem grammar as a foundational framework for teaching English as a foreign language. Furthermore, grammar is thought to be a major factor in developing accuracy and correct use of EFL. Moreover, the teachers have the theoretical knowledge of various grammar teaching methods using TBL, PBL and CLT. However, they need to develop practical skills for grammar instruction. Thus, the study recommends that the universities in Saudi Arabia need to arrange regular PD programs so that the EFL teachers with modern methods to teach English grammar successfully.
Extraction Optimization and Physicochemical Properties of Pectin from Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) Rind: Comparison of Hydrochloric and Citric acid Extraction

Extraction of pectin from watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) rind using citric acid, an organic acid was optimized using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and compared to that using hydrochloric acid, a mineral acid. A five-level, four-factor central composite design was employed to optimize the conditions for maximum yield of pectin. The effects of pH, reaction temperature, reaction duration and substrate to extractant ratio were investigated. The optimized conditions using citric acid as an extractant were at pH 2, 80EÂA‚ÂsC, 3h and substrate to extractant ratio of 1:25. The optimized conditions using hydrochloric acid as an extractant were similar except for a shorter extraction time of 2h. At these extraction conditions, the yield of pectin extracted using citric acid (8.38 ± 0.43) was significantly higher than that using hydrochloric acid (6.52 ± 0.15) but showed similar uronic acid content (50.2-58.8%), degree of methylation (66.3-71.5%) and degree of acetylation (106.0-106.8%). Citric or hydrochloric acid-extracted watermelon rind pectin showed near Newtonian like flow behavior at 1% concentration and this behavior was similar to citrus peel pectin. This study demonstrated the use of citric acid as the more effective acid than hydrochloric acid to extract pectin and also the transformation of fruit waste to use material from watermelon rind.
Stumble, an intertidal site in the Blackwater Estuary, Essex, England

During the first season's excavation of neolithic deposits at The Stumble, Essex, abundant carbonised remains of cereals (Triticum dicoccum, T. monococcum, Hordeum sp. var. nudum) were retrieved, but carbonised remains of rosaceous fruits, Corylus nutshells, and unidentified roots, tubers and rhizomes were also common, indicating a substantial reliance on wild plant foodstuffs. The presence of immature Tilia fruits may be related to the collection of leaf fodder. Sample composition suggests that the assemblages mainly represent accidental charring of semi-clean crop products, though one sample produced crop-cleaning waste. The results from this site provide, for the first time in Eastern England, a firm basis for discussion of a neolithic plant economy.
Knowledge and Attitude of Basic Life Support among Medical Students at King Abdul-Aziz University

Aim of the work: basic life support (BLS) refers to the skills that require few tools to save lives of the victims of cardiac or respiratory arrests. All healthcare providers are required to master these skills in order to maximize the care to those who experience such emergencies. This study aimed to assess the knowledge and attitude toward BLS in King Abdul-Aziz University among 3rd to 6th year medical students. Methods: this is a retrospective cross-sectional study conducted in King Abdul-Aziz University, College of Medicine in Jeddah-Saudi Arabia among the medical students, from June to October 2016 lasting for a period of 4 months. Data were gathered by using electronic Google forms questionnaires that were distributed to 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th years medical students. Data analysis was done by using SPSS version 17 in July 2017 Results: 370 medical students at King Abdul-Aziz University (KAU) were participated to evaluate their knowledge and attitude toward Basic Life Support (BLS). 190 of the students were male students. 43% and 38.5% of female and male students scored all the right answers respectively. Both the total mean of correct answers of knowledge and attitude toward BLS were 40% for both variables. Students who had BLS courses other than the mandatory ones scored 41.5% of the correct answers, while the students who had only mandatory BLS courses scored 39% of the correct answers. Conclusions: among KAU medical students, the data showed poor essential knowledge toward BLS. Overall attitude towards BLS was negative. However, the data also showed slight improvement when students had BLS courses other than the mandatory ones. Therefore, more focus may be placed for strengthening BLS skills. In addition, it is recommended to have an annual BLS simulation for all medical students to consolidate their skills and knowledge. We also recommend adding active learning to all medical students.
Parkinson's disease and the welding job: are both related?

Up to the present, there has been a controversy on the relationship between Parkinson’s disease and the welding job. The aim of this study was to obtain evidence-based information regarding the relationship between Parkinson’s disease and the welding job through an evidence-based case report derived from a literature review. The review was conducted through a method of search and selection of articles in the Pubmed, Cochrane Library and JSTOR databases aimed at answering the study question. The process of searching articles used the keywords “Welding” OR “Welder” AND “Parkinson”. Article selection was performed using the defined inclusion and exclusion criteria. At the initial search, 117 articles were retrieved from the three databases. Following the selection process, three articles remained, which consisted of one systematic review and two observational studies. Comparing the selected articles, the systematic review of Mortimer et al. is more relevant and appropriate for answering the clinical question. Mortimer et al. used a meta-analytical method, applied strict inclusion and exclusion criteria and excluded studies that potentially led to bias effects, lack of validity or inadequate statistical methods. Based on the selected evidence-based resources, Parkinson’s disease is not related to the welding job. The welding job, however, may produce clinical symptoms and signs resembling Parkinson’s disease, known as manganism.
Synergistic Antibacterial Activity of Epidermin and Staphylolysin LasA against Pathogenic Bacteria

Antibiotic resistance increment is a major problem for the human society nowadays which encourages the efforts to look for new therapeutic alternatives from natural defenses. Synergistic antibacterial activity of epidermin and staphylolysin LasA A against Staphylococcus aureus (Staph aureus), Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Ps. aeruginosa) was evaluated. The antibacterial activities of epidermin from Staphylococcus epidermidis (Staph epidermidis) and Staphylolysin (LasA) from Ps. aeruginosa using the agar well diffusion assay were evaluated, and then using the micro dilution method to evaluate the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC). The checkerboard method and fractional inhibitory concentration (FIC) were used to evaluate the combination between epidermin and LasA toward targeted clinical isolates of Staph aureus, E. coli and Ps. aeruginosa. The results revealed a synergistic effect between epidermin and LasA on all clinical isolates growth. The highest MIC and MBC of epidermin were 36.04 μL/mL and 51.73 μL/mL against Staph aureus; meanwhile, the highest MIC and MBC of LasA were 44.38 μL/mL and 50 μL/mL against Staph aureus. The FICindex revealed synergistic interactions in combination of epidermin and LasA which recorded 0.286 for Staph aureus while for E. coli was 0.327 and for Ps. aeruginosa was 0.390 respectively showing a synergism effect. This study finds that combination of epidermin with LasA had inhibitory activity on the targeted clinical isolate growth, which can be useful for designing and developing alternative therapeutic strategies against pathogens causing wound and burn infections.
Quasi-optimal Learning with Continuous Treatments

Many real-world applications of reinforcement learning (RL) require making decisions in continuous action environments. In particular, determining the optimal dose level plays a vital role in developing medical treatment regimes. One challenge in adapting existing RL algorithms to medical applications, however, is that the popular infinite support stochastic policies, e.g., Gaussian policy, may assign riskily high dosages and harm patients seriously. Hence, it is important to induce a policy class whose support only contains near-optimal actions, and shrink the action-searching area for effectiveness and reliability. To achieve this, we develop a novel quasi-optimal learning algorithm, which can be easily optimized in off-policy settings with guaranteed convergence under general function approximations. Theoretically, we analyze the consistency, sample complexity, adaptability, and convergence of the proposed algorithm. We evaluate our algorithm with comprehensive simulated experiments and a dose suggestion real application to Ohio Type 1 diabetes dataset.
Drag Forces on Sediment Particles in Unidirectional Water Flows

The fluctuating drag forces acting on spherical roughness elements comprising the bed of an open-channel flow have been recorded along with synchronous measurements of the surrounding velocity field using stereoscopic particle image velocimetry. Pre-multiplied spectra of drag force fluctuations were found to have bi-modal shapes with a low frequency ‘hill’ corresponding to the presence of very-large-scale motions (VLSMs) in the turbulent flow. The high frequency ‘hill’ of the drag force spectra cannot be explained by velocity time series extracted from points around the particle, but instead appears to be induced by the action of the spatial pressure gradients in the overlying flow field. Experiments with lightweight mobile particles confirmed that VLSMs are key contributors to sediment entrainment. Further data are required to clarify the role of particle lift forces, and particle shape in the entrainment process.
VITAMIN D AND THE ATHLETE – AN OVERSIMPLIFIED, COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL PROBLEM

• The vitamin D endocrine system is an increasingly more complex biological pathway than originally described in sport science literature. • Many athletes have low total vitamin D (25[OH]D) concentrations. • Supplementing with mega bolus doses of vitamin D may be detrimental to vitamin D metabolism. • Measuring total 25[OH]D may no longer be the best marker of vitamin D status. • Very low vitamin D concentrations can negatively affect athletic performance both directly and indirectly. VITAMIN D AND THE ATHLETE – AN OVERSIMPLIFIED, COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL PROBLEM Graeme L. Close | Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences | Liverpool John Moores University | Liverpool | UK Richard Allison | Arsenal Football Club | Bell Lane | London Colney | Shenley | St Albans | UK Daniel Owens | Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences | Liverpool John Moores University | Liverpool | UK SE 191
Spatial and temporal patterns in the Mediterranean populations of Aristaeomorpha foliacea and Aristeus antennatus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Aristeidae) based on the MEDITS surveys ; Tendencias espaciales y temporales en las poblaciones mediterráneas de Aristaeomorpha foliacea y Aristeus antennatus (Cru

1 Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centre Oceanogràfic de les Balears, Moll de Ponent s/n, 07015 Palma, Illes Balears, Spain. (BG) (corresponding author) E-mail: beatriz.guijarro@ieo.es. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2083-4681 2 COISPA Tecnologia & Ricerca, Via dei Trulli, 18/20, Bari, Italy. (IB) E-mail: bitetto@coispa.it. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8497-1642 3 Department of Biology, University of Bari Aldo Moro, LRU CoNISMa, Bari, Italy. (GD) E-mail: gianfranco.donghia@uniba.it. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0952-9472 4 Department of Life and Environmental Science University of Cagliari, Via T. Fiorelli 1, Cagliari, Italy. (MCF) E-mail: follesac@unica.it. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8320-9974 (AC) E-mail: cau@unica.it. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6897-2127 5 Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Leoforos Vouliagmenis 576, 16452, Athens, Greece. (KK) E-mail: kkapir@hcmr.gr. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6603-2572 6 European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), ISPRA, Italy. (AM) E-mail: Alessandro.MANNINI@ec.europa. eu. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5910-3413 7 Institute of Marine Biology, University of Montenegro, Dobrota bb, 85 330 Kotor, Montenegro. (OM) E-mail: omarkovic@ucg.ac. me. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9228-1748 8 Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture. Ministry for the Environment, Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Malta. (RM) E-mail: reno.micallef@gov.mt. ORCID.iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1921-508X 9 Institute for the study of the Marine Living Resources and Bio-Technologies (IRBIM), National Research Council (CNR) of Mazara del Vallo, Via Luigi Vaccara, 61, 91026, Mazara del Vallo (TP), Italy. (SR) E-mail: sergio.ragonese@cnr.it. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4051-1131 10 Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Former US Base at Gournes, P.C. 71500, Crete, Greece. (KS) E-mail: kskarvelis@hcmr.gr. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0008-0816
Antibiotic profiling of bacterial isolates obtained from turkey and chicken in selected farms in Ibadan, Nigeria

In recent times, the prevalence of antimicrobial drug resistance has increased tremendously due to a number of factors including use of human drugs for the treatment of animal diseases, leading to the transfer of antibiotic resistance in terms of antibiotic residues in poultry meat to pathogenic bacteria. This study determined the antibiotic profiles of bacterial isolates in poultry cloacal swabs from selected farms in Ibadan. Fifty and twenty cloacal swabs were collected aseptically from turkey and chicken at Apete and University of Ibadan research farm respectively. The samples were immediately transported to the laboratory for microbiological analysis. Thus, the cloacal swabs were screened using MacConkey agar, blood agar and xylose lysine deoxycholate agar. Isolates were identified using standard microbiological techniques and tested to ten different antibiotic discs according to Kirby-Bauer procedure. Sixty-one and thirteen different isolates were detected from turkey and chicken cloacal swabs respectively. Of the turkey isolates, Pseudomonas had the highest occurrence of 25% while Escherichia coli (46%) had the highest occurrence of the chicken isolates. The Gram-negative isolates showed high resistance to augmentin (69%), streptomycin (69%), sulphamethoxazole (78%) and chloramphenicol (82%). Staphylococcus species which was the only Gram-positive isolate in this study was greatly resistant to gentamicin (83%). Both the turkey and chicken isolates had different antibiotic resistance rates and patterns with a huge percentage (86%) of them being multi-drug resistant. This work observed a higher resistance to many of the commonly used antibiotics in the poultry industry thereby, posing a public health risk since most of these drugs are used for treatment of human infections
The role of classroom management and mastery goal orientation towards student’s self-regulation in learning Mathematics

Mathematics until today is still considered a difficult subject so that it needs to think about appropriate strategies to encourage students to be able to regulate themselves in learning this subject. This study aimed to test empirically the role of classroom management and mastery goal orientation towards self-regulated learning. The participants of the study were 177 students of state high schools in Sleman, who were selected using a purposive sampling technique. The scales used were self-regulation of mathematics learning scale, classroom management scale, and mastery goal orientation scale. The data analysis using two-predictor regression analysis showed that classroom management and mastery goal simultaneously played a significant role by 68.7% (R2=0.687, F (2.177) =191.243, p<0.01). Classroom management predicted self-regulation (β= -0.130, p < 0.01), and so did mastery goal (β= 0.878, p < 0.01). Based on the results of this study, it could be concluded that self-regulation in learning Mathematics can be determined through classroom manage­ment and mastery goals concurrently.
Foreign Outsourcing, the Demand for Labour and the Choice of Functional Form

The elasticity of demand for low-skilled and high-skilled labour with regard to foreign outsourcing by five EU countries, in the period 1985-1996, is derived from two alternative flexible cost functions. Non-nested hypotheses tests favour a Laurent generalized Leontief cost function over a traditional generalized Leontief in the majority of considered industries. Given the substantial differences and even contradictory conclusions of both functional forms the choice of functional form is not trivial. Foreign outsourcing appears to have had a significant impact on the demand for low-skilled and highskilled workers. The pattern is however industry specific and suggests a complex rather than a straightforward relationship between outsourcing and labour demand. There is little evidence of capital-skill complementarity and some evidence of R&D investment being biased in favour of highskilled workers.