Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of awareness programme on the knowledge, attitude and practice of gender preference & pre-natal sex determination in population of Nasik district

Introduction: India is facing a demographic nightmare in terms of gender imbalance, The worrying fact is the child sex ratio in Nashik district is 890 which is much lower than the national average of 919. This rate of decline is alarming. Though government has implemented PC & PNDT Act to prevent pre-natal sex determination, it seems not to be reflected in practice. Aims & Objectives: To assess effect of awareness programme on the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Gender Preference & Pre-natal sex determination in population of Nashik district. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in the antenatal ward of a tertiary care hospital, Nashik district. A total of 100 women were included and a pre-designed and pre-tested questionnaire was used. They were asked regarding the knowledge and attitude towards the PNDT Act. There was Awareness session on PC&PNDT act and Sex Ratio, post which the questionnaire was given again. Data was analyzed by using Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) v.22. 0. Results: In the Present Study, knowledge regarding PC & PNDT act was known by 88% participants. Gender preference of a particular sex in families was 45% which came down to 12% during the post awareness. Their desire to know gender of foetus came down to 4% from 15% after the awareness programme. Conclusion: The existence of son preference is at an alarming high rate in our society and is the most important – the root cause of imbalanced sex ratio. Thus apart from the legislative measures, people also needs to be educated about the ethical issues related to female foeticide
Heterologous expression of invariant surface glycoproteins, ISG75 of Trypanosoma brucei brucei and T.b. gambiense, for antibody production and diagnosis of African Trypanosomiasis.

Accurate diagnosis of the presence of an infectious organism is very important for therapeutic interventions and consequently the recovery of the individual. There is a need for identifying new diagnostic antigens for the serological diagnosis of trypanosomiasis, a disease of humans and animals in Africa caused by protozoa belonging to the genus Trypanosoma. Invariant surface glycoproteins (ISGs) are present in most strains of the parasite and have the potential to replace the variable surface glycoproteins as diagnostic antigens. In order to avoid the challenges of in vivo culturing of bloodstream form (BSF) trypanosomes in laboratory animals, ISG65 and ISG75, the two most common ISGs were heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli and Pichia pastoris expression systems. The extracellular domains of ISG65 and ISG75 of both T. b. brucei and T. b. gambiense were amplified by PCR from genomic DNA using appropriate primers to give inserts of 1121 bp and 1342 bp sizes. These were sub-cloned into the pGEX-4T1 and pET28a expression vectors. Chemically competent E. coli BL21 (DE3) were transformed using the resultant plasmids and the transformed E. coli cells were used for heterologous protein expression. The expressed proteins were purified by three phase partitioning (TPP), nickel or glutathione affinity and molecular exclusion chromatography and analysed by reducing SDS-PAGE. The glycosylation status of ISG65 and ISG75 expressed in the M5 strain of P. pastoris, which has an engineered N-glycosylation pathway that produces glycosylated proteins similar to what is obtained in trypanosomes, was determined. The enzymatic action of Endoglycosidase H resulted in a shift in the electrophoretic migration of ISG65 but not ISG75 on SDS-PAGE, confirming N-glycosylation. Anti-ISG65 and anti-ISG75 antibodies were produced in chickens and affinity purified using the respective recombinant proteins immobilised on affinity matrices. The antibodies recognised native ISG65 and ISG75 respectively in western blots of lysates of T. b. brucei parasites cultured in vitro. Similar recognition of the native ISGs by the anti-recombinant ISG antibodies was also obtained using immunofluorescence microscopy of fixed
STUDIES ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF KABULI CHICKPEA (CICER ARIETINUM L.) GENOTYPES UNDER DIFFERENT PLANT DENSITIES AND FERTILITY LEVELS

A field experiment was carried out during the rabi season of the year 2008–2009 to find out the studies on growth and yield of Kabuli chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes under different plant densities and fertility levels. Genotype ‘Phule G 95333’ recorded higher growth and yield attributes, grain and straw yield than genotype ‘Phule G 0515’. 33 plants/m2 showed that significantly higher grain and straw yield, whereas number of pods/plant and grain yield/plant were higher with 22 plants/m2. As regards the effect of higher fertility level 30 kg N + 60 kg P2O5 + 30 kg K2O + 20 kg S/ha produced significantly higher values of growth and yield attributes, grain and straw yield compared to lower fertility level 20 kg N + 40 kg P2O5 + 20 kg K2O + 20 kg S/ha
Estudios cariologicos en compositae. I

Meiotie and/or mitotic chromosome numbers were determined and observations on meiotic behavior were made in 104 accessions belonging to 75 species and 32 genera distributed in 10 tribes of the Asteraceae. One genus ( Picrosia ), 21 species and 2 varietes are investigated cytologically for the first time. These are as follows, tribe Mutisieae: Chaptalia graminifolia (Dus.) Cabrera and Ch. pilloselloides (Vahl.) Baker (2n = ca. 48); tribe Cichorieae: Picrosia longifolia Don (n = 7 II); tribe Astereae: Baccharis effusa Griseb. (n = 9 II), B. flabellata Hook. et Arn. (n = 9 II), B. flabellata var. argentina (Heer.) Ariza (n = 9 II), B. rhexioides H. B. K. (n = 9 II), B. tucumanensis Hook. et Arn. (n = 9 II), Grindelia buphthalmoides DC. (2n = 12); tribe Senecioneae: Senecio flagellisectus Griseb. (n = 20 II), S. grisebachii Baker var. grisebachii Baker (n = 20 II), S. l orentzii Griseb. (n = 20 II); tribe Heliantheae: Calea clematidea Baker (n = 19 II), Cosmos marginatus Klatt (n = 24 II), Spilanthes alpestris Griseb. (n = ca. 14 II), Tridax paraguayensis Kuntze (n = 18 II); tribe Eupatorieae: Eupatorium buniifolium Hook. et Arn. (2n = 20 + 2B), E. lorentzii Hieron. (n = ca. 17 II), E. grosidentatum Hieron. (n = 10 II), Ophryosporus macrodon Griseb. (n = 10 II), Pterocaulon lanatum O. K. (n = 11 II), Stevia aff. effusa Hieron. (n = 11 II) and S. maimarensis (Hieron.) Cabrera (n = 11 II). Different chromosome numbers to those reported previously in the literature were found for Aspilia montevidensis (Spreng.) Kuntze var. setosa (Griseb.) Cabrera (n = 11 II), Liabum polymnoides R. E. Fries (n = 15 II) and Eupatorium saltense Hieron. (n = ca. 26 II) The karyotypes of Hieracium tandilense Sleumer, Baccharis effusa Griseb. , B. spicata (Lam.) Baillon, Eupatorium buniifolium Hook. et Arn. and Stevia satureaiefolia (Lam.) Sehultz-Bip. are described for the first time. The significance of some of the results in relation to taxonomical and evolutionary problems is discussed.
Effectiveness of Buyer-Supplier Prior Experience on E-Procurement Platforms

E-procurement platforms facilitate transactions between suppliers and buyers from all over the world. Over time, suppliers and buyers may develop familiarity from prior experience with earlier transactions. The project team literature has established that prior experience leads to better project performance. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of prior experience between buyers and suppliers in e-procurement platforms with a focus on the moderating roles of temporal distance and language difference between the buyer and the supplier as well as the effect of routine tasks in the project (termed “task routinization”). Using a unique data set from a large e-procurement platform, Freelancer.com, we first find that buyers’ prior experience with a supplier positively affects project outcomes, and temporal distance and language difference both negatively affect project outcomes. This is consistent with previous findings for emerging e-procurement platforms. More interestingly, we find that the effectiveness of prior experience is constrained by both temporal distance and language difference, such that if a greater temporal distance separates the buyer and supplier or if the two speak different languages, prior experience is less likely to be helpful. In addition, while task routinization does not directly affect a project’s success, it has a positive interaction effect with prior experience, suggesting that buyers’ prior experience with a supplier is more effective in enhancing project outcomes when a project comprises routine tasks. Our findings on prior experience, temporal distance, language difference, and task routinization contribute to a better understanding of the e-procurement platform for global outsourcing and procurement. Limitations are discussed and topics are identified for future research.
Conservation benefit from harvesting kangaroos: status report at the start of a new millennium

Over the last twenty years, kangaroo harvesting has gained much greater public acceptance and risen in monetary value. However, most landholders still regard kangaroos mainly as pests, and are a long way from making enough money from kangaroos to encourage any shift away from their focus on sheep.Yet kangaroo meat is now sold legally for human consumption in all Australian States and is common on restaurant menus, while its export is rising steadily. Extensive aerial surveys have established the abundance of the three large kangaroo species and their resilience to harvesting. A small number of landholders are benefiting from kangaroos, either by selling access to shooters/processors or through direct involvement as licensed operators.The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has supported the concept of achieving conservation benefits from the sustainable use of wildlife, and this has been incorporated into kangaroo management programs (for leather and meat) by most Australian governments. Despite all these positives, the low price of kangaroo meat, which has still not found the place it deserves on the international game meat market, is a major impediment to implementing “sheep replacement therapy for rangelands”, and only when prices rise significantly will landholders choose to reduce sheep numbers and invest their hopes in kangaroos. Meanwhile, land degradation continues unabated and low prices for coarse fibre wool, while encouraging woolgrowers in the sheep rangelands to overstock, also provide a stimulus to landholders to diversify. Alarmingly, many landholders are choosing to diversify into goats which, though profitable in the short term, will extend the damage done by sheep. Low prices for wool from the sheep rangelands also amplify the clamour for kangaroo control, and governments are responding by researching or implementing programs designed to significantly reduce kangaroo numbers. South Australia now has a program which, if implemented fully, would reduce kangaroos by 60%. In Queensland and NSW, research projects are examining more effective ways to reduce kangaroo numbers. These goals reflect an acceptance of the folklore that competition from kangaroos compromises wool production and markedly reduces sheep carrying capacity, even though scientific evidence for this is lacking. But reducing kangaroos will not bring the anticipated benefits to woolgrowers, because kangaroos at typical densities are a much smaller component of the total grazing pressure (TGP) than is generally assumed. This is because the factor of 0.7 DSE (dry sheep equivalent), by which kangaroo numbers are translated into forage lost to sheep, is an overestimate. Taking body weights into account the factor should be about 0.4
Curcuma longa leaves exhibits a potential antioxidant, antibacterial and immunomodulating properties

The use of herbs to treat illness has its roots in an ancient holistic healing tradition that originated in Asia more than 3000 years ago. Plants rich in a wide variety of secondary metabolites like tannins, terpanoids, alkaloids, alkaloids and flavonoids, which have been found in vitro to have antimicrobial and antioxidant properties.Turmeric, a representative of plant genus Curcuma, is the member of ginger family, Zingiberaceae. There are five different varieties we have taken Curcuma amada, Curcuma aromatica, Curcuma longa, Curcuma zeodaria, Curcuma caesia. The active substance of turmeric is the polyphenol curcumin, also known as natural yellow 3. It exists at atleast 2 tautomeric forms, keto and enol. It has aroma and flavour and it is used in cosmetics and food additive besides medicinal properties. The present study is a new attempt in leaves segments of the plant Curcuma longa to prove the medicinal potential of the whole plant. This study also includes the comparison of the different species of Curcuma. The active constituents of turmeric are the flavonoid curcumin and volatile oils including turmeron, atlanton and gingibaron. Our experiments are based on 50% methanolic extract of Curcuma leaves to perform anti bacterial, anti oxidant and immunomodulating properties. The antibacterial activity has been done by the help of Disc Diffusion Susceptibility Testing (Kirby-Bauer Method) against four species of bacteria which include Bacillus cereus, Diploccocus pneumoneae, Streptococcus pyrogens & Micrococcus glutamicus. Antioxidant activity has been detected by the Fenton’s reaction. Immunomodulation activity has been seen in curcuma leaves. The results of the present study reveal that all the five species of curcuma exhibit an antioxidant activity and antibacterial activity on different concentration of leave extract. The extract was found to increase the phagocytic activity of macrophages against yeast cells. However, the best activity has been revealed by curcuma longa among the all species of curcuma. In near future the pharmaceuticals studies can be extended to prove its tremendous medicinal properties in case of drug preparation for immune cell properties enhancement and to prove its potential value unlike Curcuma rhizome. Keywords:— Curcuma Longa, Curcuma Amada, Curcuma Aromatica, Immounomodulation, Curcumin.
Efecto de la adición de enzimas fibrolíticas y una fitasa para cerdos en crecimiento sobre la digestibilidad de nutrientes

Nutrient digestibility and productive performance in pigs fed sorghum-canola based diets containing a multi-enzymatic complex (pectinases, b-glucanases and hemicellulases - PGH) or phytase (FYT) or their combination were evaluated in three experiments. Exp 1 involved 16 barrows (43 kg) in a completely randomized design with a 2 (FYT: 0 and 0.3 kg/t) x 2 (PGH: 0 and 0.3 kg/t) factorial arrangement. Exp 2 included 36 barrows (40 kg), in a completely randomized block design with a factorial arrangement of two physical forms (powder or pellet) and three formulations (1. 3.08 Mcal ME/kg, reduced Ca and P, with or without enzymes, 2 positive control, and 3. 3.25 Mcal ME/kg and adequate levels Ca and P levels) to measure digestibility. Exp 3, used the same treatments as in Exp 2, but only in pellet form, to evaluate productive performance. In Exp 1, the combination of FYT and PGH increased digestible energy (DE) and metabolized energy (ME) (P<0.05) between 130 and 146 kcal/kg, and improved Ca and P digestibility (P<0.05). In Exp 2, the enzymes improved Ca, P, and energy digestibility (P<0.05), releasing 108 extra kcal of ME. In Exp 3, use of the enzymes improved feed and energy efficiency (P<0.01), with 129 Kcal ME/kg released as a result. Addition of FYT and PGH to the sorghum-canola based diets increased ME between 108 and 146 kcal ME/kg.
Contribution to the desmid flora of Turkey

Cosmarium botrytis Menegh. ex Ralfs var. tumidum Wolle, Cosmarium notabile Breb. var. transiens Insam et Krieger, Cosmarium tetragonum (Nag.) Arch. in Pritchard var. tetragonum, and Cosmarium vogesiacum Lemaire var. alpinum (Schmidle) Laporte are recorded for the first time for the desmid flora of Turkey. The desmids are recorded from Yedigoller Lakes in the Eastern Black Sea region of Turkey.
Manufacturing location choice: empirical evidence from Italy

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between manufacturing location choices and firms competitiveness in high-cost countries by analyzing different strategies of location choices. This research question will be covered in two chapters. Chapter 1 analysis the impact of COO on companies offshoring and reshoring decisions in order to achieve competitive advantage. In particular it offers some insights on main motivations of offshoring and reshoring strategies, the main attractive indicators of these locations where manufacturing activities are established and finally the COO seen as an indicator of competitive advantage for firms that operate in offshoring/reshoring process. While other studies focus only on investigating the role of COO on both offshoring and reshoring strategies, this study aims in analyzing in specific how COM and COD as two components of COO influence on firms’ manufacturing location choices. A multiple case studies of 8 Italian manufacturing firms that operate in fashion industry is conduct in order to clarify better this issue. Chapter 2 investigates the relationship between different strategies of manufacturing location choices and innovation. In particular it aims to examine the importance of co-location of R&D and manufacturing first, and second the relationship between the latter and different strategies of manufacturing location choices in high-cost countries. The methodology used in this chapter consists on a cluster analysis of 37 Italian firms that operate in fashion industry. In both chapters Italian manufacturing firms are used as unit of analysis in order to investigate the relationship between different strategies of location choices and firms’ competitiveness. While most of the studies on internationalization of production focus more on analyzing emerging countries, this study aims to leverage the role of high-cost countries as an opportunity for manufacturing firms to gain competitive advantage. For instance, high-cost countries are seen as a possibility for firms to get innovation, access to skills and where there is high perception of product “made in” (Bailey & De Propris, 2014; Gray et al., 2017). In particular, firms that operate in fashion industry are recently subject of study of internationalization of production influencing firms location choices (Global Powers of Luxury Goods, 2018). After analyzing each chapter, the rest of the thesis describes the main findings of the research and ends with some discussions and conclusions.
Non-systemic Infection of Tobacco streak virus on Cotton in Warangal District, Andhra Pradesh

During 2005, cotton was sown on 3.67 lakh acres in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh, 62 per cent of it being Bt seeds. Hybrid RCH - 2 Bt alone was sown on 1.20 lakh acres. During late August 2005, several farmers complained about a disease causing chlorotic/necrotic lesions on leaves accompanied occasionally with leaf purpling, necrotic buds and drying up of young bolls in their cotton fields. It was also noticed that the incidence of the disease was more on Bt cultivars, compared to non Bt cultivars. A survey was conducted in some of the cotton fields to ascertain the extent of incidence and also to collect disease samples for the identification of causal agent. Samples collected during the survey were tested by Enzyme linked immuno-sorbent assay (ELIS A) and studies carried out subsequently with cotton Tobacco streak virus (TSV) isolate gave interesting results, which we report hereunder.
Abundância, riqueza e diversidade de abelhas Euglossinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae) em florestas contínuas de terra firme na Amazônia Central, Brasil

The fauna of Euglossinae bees were studied in two areas of "terra firme" continuous forest in the Central Amazon. Brazil. During one year (september/1989-august/1990) the collections were done fortnightly, using traps with eight kinds of seents baits. The traps were placed in the understory and in the tree crowns. The continuous forest of "terra firme" near Manaus are among those with the highest speeies richness of Euglossinae in the Neotropics. The species richness was higher than that found in other studies carried out in Brazil also. One study area had higher species richness and abundance, while species diversity was higher in another one. The diversity was different significally between the two areas.
Forçage électromagnétique dans les métaux liquides

Dans ce manuscrit, nous abordons une etude experimentale de magnetohydrodynamique, traitant plus particulierement du forcage electromagnetique dans les metaux liquides. L’entrainement d’un fluide conducteur de l’electricite par un champ magnetique se traduit par une conversion d’energie electromagnetique en energie cinetique, via le travail de la force de Laplace. La motivation de cette these est donc d’examiner comment un champ electromagnetique engendre un ecoulement, d’etudier les differentes facons d’assurer un tel transfert d’energie, ou encore de caracteriser les facteurs limitant l’efficacite de ce transfert. Cette these presente deux experiences de laboratoire permettant d’etudier deux types de forcage differents : d’une part, l’entrainement d’un fluide par induction a partir d’un champ magnetique variable (analogue au moteur asynchrone), d’autre part un entrainement resultant de la combinaison d’un champ magnetique stationnaire et uniforme et d’un courant electrique constant (analogue au moteur a courant continu). Dans une premiere partie, une loi predictive est obtenue pour l’evolution d’un fluide soumis a un champ glissant dans le regime turbulent. On montre que cet entrainement est limite par la turbulence, mais aussi par des mecanismes originaux comme une expulsion de flux magnetique, ou un transfert de l’energie vers des harmoniques. Cette limitation de l’entrainement se traduit par une borne sur le rendement de cette conversion d’energie, qui ne peut exceder 50%. Dans une seconde partie, le fluide est soumis a deux champs magnetiques glissants dans des directions opposees, engendrant ainsi un ecoulement de cisaillement. Les fluctuations turbulentes brisent alors la symetrie du probleme et donnent a la couche de cisaillement un comportement chaotique, revelant notamment un spectre de puissance en 1/f du champ de vitesse a basse frequence. Cette accumulation d’energie aux basses frequences est associee a des renversements chaotiques des structures coherentes. L’apparition de ce bruit en 1/f est controlee par la symetrie du forcage et le taux de turbulence au sein de l’ecoulement. Enfin, dans une derniere experience, une couche mince de metal liquide est forcee par conduction, permettant d’observer pour la premiere fois en laboratoire un ecoulement MHD turbulent de type Keplerien. On observe ainsi que le champ magnetique joue un role de laminarisation de l’ecoulement et que la transition vers le regime turbulent se fait de maniere continue. Ces travaux montrent ainsi qu’il est possible d’isoler plusieurs mecanismes limitant l’entrainement des metaux liquides forces electromagnetiquement et de comprendre plus generalement la dynamique complexe des ecoulements MHD.