Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Analysis on Grain Yield and Yield Components of the 15 t/hm ~2 Highyielding In dica Rice ( Oryza sativa L.) in Yunnan

Field experiments were conducted in the high yielding environment at Taoyuan to wnship Yu nnan, in 1995 and 1996. Yield and yield components were observated and the relat ionship between yield and yield components were investigated. The main results are as follows The highest yields were 15.27 t/hm 2 for Shanyou 63, a Chinese indica hybrid rice, and 15.18 t/hm 2 for Guichao 2, a Chinese conventional indi ca rice cultivar at Taoyuan in 1996. The analysis of correlation between yield s and yield components indicated that there were extremely significant correlati on (0.8181) between seed setting rate and yield. The correlation between panicle p er m 2 and spikelet per panicle were negative. This suggested that seed setting rate mainly caused the increment of yield. The path analysis of yields and yie ld components showed that the correlations of panicle per m 2, spikelets per pa nicle, seed setting rate and 1000 grain weight to yield were positive. The dire ct effect of seed setting rate yield (0.7979) was the highest. All kinds of the cultivar type can attain high grain yield, but the intermediate cultivar with a coodinate relationship between panicle and seeds could be the easiest one for g etting grain yield over 15 t/hm 2.
Surgery in High-Grade Insular Tumors: Oncological and Seizure Outcomes from 41 Consecutive Patients

Background: Insular high-grade gliomas are uncommon and constitute approximately 10% of all intracranial high-grade gliomas. Several publications in the recent years have thrown substantial light in the understanding of insular low-grade gliomas. However, there is a paucity of information concerning the spectrum of high-grade lesions affecting the insula, the mode of presentation vis-à -vis low-grade gliomas, and the survival rates to modern therapy. Aims and Objectives: We aim to highlight various clinical patterns, histo-pathological spectrum and the survival rates in patients with high-grade insular lesions. Also, we explore the factors that govern favourable outcomes. Materials and Methods: A retrospective study of 41 patients operated for high-grade insular tumors at our institute between March 2010 to December 2018 was done to evaluate the clinico-radiological features, surgical nuances, survival rates and seizure outcomes. Results: Raised intracranial pressure was the most frequent clinical presentation (n=28/41, 68.3%). Nearly 60% of the patients (n=25) had involvement of all four Berger-Sanai zones. The high-grade tumors encountered in our series were: glioblastoma (n=15), gliosarcoma (n=3), and embryonal tumor, not otherwise specified in 3 patients, while 21 patients had grade 3 astrocytoma. 33 out of 41 patients (80.5%) in our study showed excellent seizure control (ILAE grade 1A) at follow-up. Clinical presentation with seizures (P = 0.01, HR=0.3), WHO grade IV histopathology (P = 0.04, HR=3.7) and development of recurrence (P = 0.05, HR=5.5) were found to be independent predictors of OS. Conclusion: Insular high-grade gliomas are commoner than thought and nearly half of these are grade IV tumors (51%). A presentation with seizures may indicate precursor low-grade gliomas and portend a better survival. A maximum “safe” surgical resection, keeping the postoperative quality of life in mind, should be the goal.
Oral cavity and eating disorders: An insight to holistic health

Oral health is vital to the general well being and is a time-tested indicator of the systemic health of an individual. Oral cavity may be the primary site affected in endocrine disorders, renal disorders, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, hematological, autoimmune cutaneous disorders, and psychosomatic disorders. Eating disorders (primarily Anorexia nervosa and bulimia) are psychosomatic disorders having multifaceted etiology, and characterized by abnormal eating patterns. In many cases, the oral cavity may be the only site of the manifestations of eating disorders. An oral physician may often unveil the mystery of this underlying systemic pathology by a vigilant and meticulous examination of the oral cavity. This not only helps in nabbing the disease in its early course but also prevents the patients from the appalling consequences due to the disease. This article aims to highlight the etiopathogenesis and various oral features in eating disorders. The oral physician should be familiar with the bizarre oral features of eating disorders and should work in close connection with other healthcare physicians to prevent the psychosomatic and systemic consequences.
Evaluation of Oral Health-related Quality of Life in Patient with Removable Prosthesis: A Cross-sectional Study

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between oral health and quality of life in removable prosthesis users. Materials and Methods: An investigative cross-sectional study was designed, and 200 participants were considered based on calculations from the studies in the past. The Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP)-14 survey comprises two parts in the study. Questions related to sociodemographic factors that documented age, gender, and type of removable prosthesis were included in the initial part of survey. Questions related to impact of oral health on quality of life make up the latter part of the survey. The answers ranged from “Definitely no” to “Definitely yes” for every item on a scale having 5 points.The likely range of scores is from 14 to 70. Data were analyzed by using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software program, version 20.0 for Windows. A value of P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: A survey evaluating the relationship between oral health and quality of life was adequately completed by 200 participants. Of these, 18 (22%) were women and 154 (78%) were men. The parameters such as gender, age, and the relationship between oral health and quality of life did not show significant difference either within groups or between the groups. The enrolled participants were wearing different dental prostheses such as complete dentures (CDs) in both upper (U) jaw and lower (L) jaw (19%), U jaw (3%), L jaw (4%) and removable prostheses in both jaws (30%), U jaw (24%) and L jaw (20%). No statistically significant differences were seen between them. The scores for oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) were associated positively with removable prosthesis score (r = 0.122) and were statistically significant. Conclusion: This study concluded that the use of removable prosthesis may positively impact OHRQoL. The period of usage of removable dentures was the highly significant parameter affecting patient gratification, whereas the practice of using removable prostheses was the highly significant parameter affecting the relationship between oral health and quality of life.
Bone Sparing Effects of Bisphosphonates in Cyclosporine-induced Alveolar Bone Loss: An Animal Study

Various pharmacological agents are known to create an imbalance in the normal physiology of bone remodeling. Cyclosporine-A (Cs-A) is one of the drugs that is widely used in transplantation and has its main side effect as gingival hyperplasia and alveolar bone loss by their action on the inflammatory mediators. Bisphosphonates are a new class of drugs that inhibit bone resorption by decreasing the osteoclast activity and number. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of concomitant administration of alendronate on Cs-A-induced alveolar bone loss in a rat model.
Health-related quality of life in elderly patients with bronchiectasis

Background: Chronic lung diseases such as bronchiectasis (BR) can adversely affect health-related quality of life (HRQOL), but there are limited studies conducted to investigate HRQOL in elderly BR patients. This study aims to investigate the HRQOL in elderly patients with BR and to assess its relationship with clinical outcomes and radiological findings. Materials and Methods: A total of 74 elderly BR patients involved in the study. BR was diagnosed using high-resolution computed tomography, and all patients were evaluated with the Short Form-36 (SF-36) questionnaire. Symptoms, pulmonary function tests, BR Severity Index (BSI), Reiff's score, and medical treatments were recorded. Results: The mean age of the patients was 70.1 ± 5.0 (range: 65–89) years, and 41 (55.4%) were men. The mean SF-36 Physical Component Summary (PCS) and Mental Health Component Summary (MCS) scores of the 74 elderly patients with BR were 36.6 ± 11.2 (range: 16.3–70) and 44.8 ± 8.9 (range: 23–59.6), respectively. All of the SF-36 subscale results except physical functioning subscale were lower in elderly patients with BR than in the normal Turkish elderly population. There was a major difference in the pain domain between males and females (57.9 ± 27.7 vs. 43.9 ± 27.6, respectively; P = 0.035), but there was no other significant difference between SF-36 domains by gender. The BSI was strongly correlated with all SF-36 subscales. There were statistically significant correlations between Reiff's score, forced expiratory volume in 1 s percent predicted value, forced vital capacity percent predicted value, and number of admissions to the emergency room in the previous year and some SF-36 subscales (P < 0.05). However, there was no correlation between age and PCS, MCS, or SF-36 subscales. Conclusion: Our study demonstrated that elderly patients with BR had poorer HRQOL scores. The BSI, Reiff's score, and pulmonary function tests were correlated with the SF-36 domains.
Bilateral Inferior Petrosal Sinus Sampling in Corticotropin-Dependent Cushing's Syndrome: A Single Center Experience from Western India

Objective: Efficacy of bilateral inferior petrosal sinus sampling (BIPSS) in corticotropin-dependent Cushing's syndrome (CS) for localization and lateralization of excess adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) source, as compared to high-dose dexamethasone suppression test (HDDST) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) pituitary, respectively. Methodology: Thirteen patients with clinically and biochemically confirmed CS underwent HDDST, MRI pituitary, and BIPSS by an experienced team of intervention neurologist, neurosurgeon, and endocrinologist using percutaneous femoral vein approach. Results: Of 13 patients (11 adults and two children) who underwent BIPSS, raised central to peripheral ACTH ratio was achieved in 12 cases, remaining one case being ectopic ACTH secretion (EAS). However, inter IPS gradient >1.4 was achieved in 11 (91.6%) of 12 Cushing's disease (CD) cases before vasopressin stimulation; and in 9 (75%) of 12 CD cases after vasopressin stimulation (P-value 0.583). HDDST suppression of more than 50% was present in only ten cases with CD, falsely negating CD in two cases (16.6%), sensitivity 83.3% and specificity 100%. MRI sella demonstrated pituitary microadenoma in 12 cases and macroadenoma in one case. Lateralization by BIPSS and MRI was concordant in 7 (58.3%) out of 12 cases with CD, with rate of remission after transsphenoidal surgery being higher in patients with concordant lateralization by BIPSS and MRI. Conclusions: BIPSS is an important investigation to distinguish CD and EAS. BIPSS was superior to HDDST for confirming the source of excess ACTH. Our findings favor the use of BIPSS for localization and pituitary MRI for lateralization of microadenoma.
Does difficulty assessment of laparoscopic cholecystectomy using currently available preoperative scores need revision?

Introduction Risk factors used for preoperative anticipation of a difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy should be identified to prevent complications beforehand. The aim of this study was to evaluate factors predicting difficulty and the possibility of conversion to open cholecystectomy before surgery. Patients and methods Patients diagnosed with symptomatic cholelithiasis and scheduled for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy were enrolled in the study. Patient’s age and sex, previous hospital admissions, BMI, previous abdominal scar, a palpable gall bladder, gall bladder wall thickness, the presence of pericholecystic fluid collection, and impacted stone are considered risk factors that were used to calculate preoperative scores. Surgical procedure was categorized intraoperative as easy, difficult, or very difficult on the basis of duration of surgery or conversion to open cholecystectomy. Results There was no significant difference between intraoperative difficulty regarding age, sex, BMI, and the presence of either abdominal scar or impacted stone. The absence of previous history of hospitalization and the presence of nonpalpable gall bladder were significantly associated with intraoperative categorization as easy cases (P=0.002). Discussion and conclusion The evaluated scoring system requires meticulous revision for the factors included. Insensitive factors could be removed without negative effect on the outcome. Focus should be directed toward significant items regarding sonography findings. It could be applied as a useful tool to predict easy cases but needs adjustment for the factors considered in case of predicting difficult and very difficult cases. The experience of the surgeon is an important factor in assessing difficulty intraoperative.
Psychrophilic Extremophiles from Antarctica: Biodiversity and Biotechnological Potential

Recently there has been a rapid accumulation of knowledge of microbial life in cold and frozen ecosystems. This understanding has revealed the extensive diversity of psychrophilic prokaryotes. Cultivation-based and molecular-based surveys have been performed in Antarctic habitats ranging from glacial ice to continental shelf sediments. Results indicate that psychrophilic taxa permeate throughout the Bacteria while they represent a more mysterious element of diversity in the Archaea owing to a notable lack of cultured strains. In certain cold climate ecosystems the diversity of psychrophilic populations reach levels comparable to the richest temperate equivalents. Within these communities must exist tremendous genetic diversify that is potentially of fundamental and of practical value. So far this genetic pool has been hardly explored. Only recently have genomic data become available for various psychrophilic prokaryotes and more is required. This owes to the fact that psychrophilic microbes possess manifold mechanisms for cold adaptations, which not only Provide enhanced survival and Persistence but Probably also contributes to niche specialisation. These mechanisms, including cold-active and ice-active proteins, polyunsaturated lipids and exopolysaccharides also have a great interest to biotechnologists.
Role of Insecticides and Botanicals in Regulating Whitefly (Dialeuropora decempuncta) Incidence and Their Influence on some Economic Traits of Silkworm (Bombyx mori L.)

The effectiveness of monocrotophos, acephate and dichlorvos, neem based pesticides (azadirachtin 1500 ppm & 300 ppm) and dk bioneem was observed against whitefly on mulberry. All pesticides tested, significantly reduced the pest population. Among them, acephate and monocrotophos both as 0.05% and neem oil (azadirachtin 1500 ppm) 1% were most effective. The findings of bioassay study on silkworm (Race-Nistari) revealed that insecticides treated leaves fed to silkworm caused a highly significant decline in the commercial characters. Larval weight, effective rate of rearing, cocoon weight, shell weight, SR %, filament length and denier as compared to control up to 14 days of spray. Mulberry leaves treated with dichlorvos (0.1%) and neem oil (1%) showed 95 and 93% survivability up to cocoon formation even after 14 days of spray. Based on the economics and residual effects on silkworm, neem oil (1%) and dichlorvos (0.1%) were the effective treatments in combating the whitefly infestation to mulberry.
Study on Anti-bacterium Activities of Extract of Ginkgo biloba Leaves(EGbs)and Ginkgolic Acids(GAs)

Anti-microbial activities of EGbs contatining different concentration Ginkgolic acids and Ginkgolic acids were assayedand the different pH and heat treatment effects on anti-microbial activity of Ginkgolic acids were assayed also.It was concludethat Ginkgolic acids in the EGb was the main anti-microbial ingredient, and showed specially strong inhibiting effect on G+bacterium, and anti-microbial activity was enhanced with the increasing of concentration and the acting time of Ginkgolic acids.Ginkgolic acids showed also certain heat stability.
Sensitivity Enhancement of a Complementary Split-Ring Resonator as a Dielectric Sensor Using Nonzero-Offset Coupling

In this paper, a novel technique based on nonzero-offset coupling for sensitivity enhancement of a complementary split-ring resonator as a dielectric sensor is proposed. Changing the offset between the central island of CSRR and the microstrip line makes the overall system sensitive to changes near the sensor, which adds a new degree of freedom for sensitivity enhancement since the sensitivity of such a system is related to the coupling capacitance and inductance. The resonator is designed by etching out a ring with a split in the ground plane and then inductively excited by connecting the resonator's island to TL using a plated via. As a dielectric sensor, the sensing mechanism is based on measuring the relative changes in the resonance frequency in respect of a reference case. The sensor is used to detect a dielectric slab with a thickness of 3 mm and width and length of 22.5 mm, where the relative permittivity of the slab is varied from 1 to 11 with a variation of 0.5. The proposed sensor is evaluated using a numerical simulation (HFSS). Based on the numerical results, the enhanced sensitivity is 44.38%, 15.45%, and 6.54 % when detecting the slab with the dielectric constant of 1.5, 2, and 10, respectively. Since the sensor has many features such as high sensitivity, simplicity in the sensing mechanism, and low-cost fabrication using printed circuit board technology, the sensor can be attractive for sensing-system designers, making it an ideal candidate for biomedical and industrial applications.
Fusing Scene Context to Improve Object Recognition

Computer vision is a branch of science that seeks to give computers the capability of seeing the world around them. Among its tasks, object recognition aims to classify objects and to identify where each object is in a given image. As objects tend to occur in particular environments, their contextual association can be useful for improving the object recognition task. To address the contextual awareness in object recognition tasks, our approach aims to use the context of the scenes in order to achieve higher quality in object recognition, by fusing context information with object detection features. Hence, we propose a novel architecture composed of two convolutional neural networks based on two well-known pre-trained nets: Places365-CNN and Faster R-CNN. Our two-streams architecture uses the concatenation of object features with scene context features in a late fusion approach. We performed experiments using public datasets (PASCAL VOC 2007, MS COCO and a subset of SUN09) analyzing the performance of our architecture with diﬀerent threshold scores. Results show that our approach is able to raise in-context object scores, and reduces out-of-context objects scores.
Influence of plant growth regulators on the growth and physiological characteristic of Jatropha curcas seedling

According to the randomized complete block design,Jatropha curcas seedings were sprayed with different kinds and concentrations of plant growth regulators effects by randomized block design.The paper aimed to find out the appropriate growth regulator program which could best favor the growth of Jatropha curcas seedlings.The result showed that 60 mg/L of NAA or ABT3 could remarkably improve the seedling height,diameter growth,chlorophyll content and soluble sugar content comparing to control.However,CAT activity was slightly lower than the control and they were not significantly different in statistics.
Prevalence, Radiographic, and Demographic Features of Buccal Bone Expansion in Cats: A Cross-Sectional Study at a Referral Institution

Buccal bone expansion (BBE) refers to bulbous enlargement of the periodontium in domestic cats. The origin of BBE is unknown, and some of its epidemiological, clinical, and radiographic features have not been fully characterized. The purpose of this study was to determine whether specific demographic characteristics are associated with BBE in cats; and whether BBE is associated with other relevant radiographic findings. Pertinent data were collected from archived dental radiographs and electronic medical records of 97 client-owned cats. Results showed that BBE is common in cats presented for evaluation and treatment of dental disease; that breed, sex, and age are not associated with BBE; that BBE is not associated with a pattern of horizontal alveolar bone loss/extrusion or tooth resorption; that a pattern of vertical alveolar bone loss is a typical feature of BBE; and that BBE represents a common cause of canine tooth loss in cats.
One of the Triple Poly(A) Signals in the M112-113 Gene Is Important and Sufficient for Stabilizing the M112-113 mRNA and the Replication of Murine Cytomegalovirus

The M112-113 gene is the first early gene of the murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV), and its expression is activated by the immediate-early 3 (IE3) protein during MCMV infection in permissive cells. At its 5′ terminus, a 10-bp motif, upstream of the TATA box of the M112-113 gene, was identified to bind to IE3, and it is necessary for IE3 to activate M112-113 gene expression (Perez KJ et al. 2013 JVI). At the 3′ terminus of the M112-113 gene, three poly(A) signals (PASs) are arranged closely, forming a PAS cluster. We asked whether it is necessary to have the PAS cluster for the M112-113 gene and wondered which PAS is required or important for M112-113 gene expression. In this study, we mutated one, two, or all three PASs in expressing plasmids. Then, we applied bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) techniques to mutate PASs in viruses. Gene expression and viral replication were analyzed. We found that not all three PASs are needed for M112-113 gene expression. Moreover, we revealed that just one of the three poly(A)s is enough for MCMV replication. However, the deletion of all three PASs did not kill MCMV, although it significantly attenuated viral replication. Finally, an mRNA stability assay was performed and demonstrated that PASs are important to stabilize M112-113 mRNA. Therefore, we conclude that just one of the PASs of the M112-113 gene is sufficient and important for MCMV replication through the stabilization of M112-113 mRNA.