Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The performance of export manufacturing firms: roles of international entrepreneurial capability and international opportunity recognition

PurposeThe international entrepreneurial capability has achieved its legitimacy in international business literature. Leveraging capabilities to recognise opportunities is considered a pivotal strategy to achieve success. Drawing on the entrepreneurship literature and opportunity perspective, this study aims to investigate the role of international entrepreneurial capability in enhancing the international opportunity recognition (IOR) process and the performance of export manufacturing firms.Design/methodology/approachStructural equation modelling has been used to test the hypothesised relationship on 388 export manufacturing entrepreneurial firms operating in the apparel industry of Bangladesh.FindingsThe results signify that three international entrepreneurial capabilities, namely, international networking, learning and marketing capability, positively enhance the IOR process of export manufacturing firms. The IOR process positively mediates the relationships between these international entrepreneurial capabilities and firm performance.Originality/valueMerely having the international entrepreneurial capability is not sufficient to escalate the firm performance. It must be amplified by various strategic actions such as the IOR process. Entrepreneurs need to capitalise on the international entrepreneurial capability to leverage the IOR process and generate non-financial performance success. Entrepreneurial firms that focus more on stimulating non-financial performance can secure better financial performance.
Significance of peroxidase in eosinophils

Peroxidase-bearing granules are the primary component and product of eosino­ phils. The physiological significance of eosinophils is, therefore, considered to be related to the ability of this cell to synthesize, store, and transport peroxidase and to release the peroxidase-positive granules into body fluids by a lytic process that is controlled by hormones, by variations in the histamine-epinephrine balance, and by several other stimuli. Peroxidase occurs not only in eosinophils, but also in neutrophils and blood platelets; but it is not present in most cells of animal tissues. The purpose of this work is to consider, as a working hypothesis, that the function of eosinophils is to produce, store, and transport peroxidase to catalyze oxidations. Many of the aerobic dehydrogenases that catalyze reactions in which hydrogen peroxide is produced are involved in protein catabolism. Therefore, relations between eosinophils and several normal and pathological conditions of increased protein catabolism are emphasized, and also the significance of peroxi­ dase in eosinophils and other leukocytes to H20 2 produced by irradiation is considered. The functions of eosinophils and peroxidases are difficult to establish experi­ mentally, because other leukocytes and platelets contain peroxidase, and because several peroxidatic reactions can be catalyzed by hemoglobin and cytochromes (335), and because catalase, which decomposes H20 2, is present in erythrocytes and other cells, thereby preventing accumulation of H20 2 (616). In addition, catalase can act as a peroxidase in oxidation of alcohols (247) and large amounts of catalase cause purely oxidative effects, in contrast to the predominance of peroxidase activity when only small amounts of catalase are present (558). Further­ more, Keilen and Hartree have suggested that catalase may have a peroxidative function in most cells instead of preventing accumulation of H20 2 (74).
First Record of Eucephalobus oxyuroides (Nematoda:Rhabditida: Cephalobidae) from South Korea

Eucephalobus oxyuroides (de Man, 1876) Steiner, 1936 belonging to the family Cephalobidae Filpijev, 1934 (Cephalobomorpha) is newly reported from South Korea. This species is distinguished from other Eucephalobus species by its pointed tail terminus, high lips and relatively longer female tail and body. From many previous studies, intraspecific variation in this species has been reported for body length, absence/presence of probolae, and number/position of papillae in the posterior region of male, posing an obstacle for identification and phylogenetic analysis. In this study, details of the morphological characters and morphometric of E. oxyuroides Korean population are described and illustrated based on optical microscopy.
Shifts in the gut microbiota structure caused by Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy

The human gut microbiome plays an important role both in health and disease. The use of antibiotics can alter gut microbiota composition, which can cause complications of various kinds. Here we report a whole genome sequencing metagenomic study of the intestinal microbiota changes caused by Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy. We have found the decrease in taxonomic alpha-diversity due to the therapy. The changes observed were more extensive for patients with duodenal ulcer and female ones. As well across the patients under the therapy we have detected the shifts in the metabolic potential and resistome. Seven KEGG pathways associated with quorum sensing, genetic Information processing and environmental Information processing were increased, while metabolic pathways related with metabolism of cofactors and vitamins and glycan biosynthesis and metabolism decreased. Changes in the resistome profile have also been identified. We observed perturbations in intraspecies structures, which were higher in group of patients under the therapy than in control group of people without treatment. The Eubacterium rectale pangenome extracted from metagenomic data were changed. We also isolated and sequenced Enterococcus faecium strains from two patients before and after eradication therapy. After the therapy this bacterium increased as the antibiotic resistance in vitro, as well the number of ARGs to macrolides and tetracyclines and metagenomic relative abundance in comparison with strains before therapy. In summary, microbial community demonstrated shift to reduce metabolic potential and to increased mechanisms, which mediate more survival condition through intraspecies perturbations. Importance The human gut microbiome plays an important role both in health and disease. The use of antibiotics can alter gut microbiota composition, which can cause complications of various kinds. H. pylori eradication therapy causes multiple shifts and alterations (including intraspecies changes) of the intestinal microbiota structure and leads to the accumulation of genes which determine resistance to macrolides. Since these changes are not the same for patients with various diseases, patients with duodenal ulcer may be further paid special attention for reducing side effects, such as antibiotic-induced dysbiosis. Also, study of antibiotic treatment in terms of its impact upon the human gut microbiota allows shedding light on of the complex processes that cause accumulation and spread of antibiotic resistance. An identification and understanding of these complicated processes may help to constrain antibiotic resistance spread, which is of great importance for human health care.
Recovery of boreal forest soil and tree stand characteristics a century after intensive slash-and-burn cultivation

Passive rewildening of forest ecosystems is commonly used for rehabilitating degraded habitats closer to their natural origin in addition to costly active restoration measures. However, it is not clear if passive processes are effective and how long the recovery of main ecosystem properties takes. We investigate the recovery of forest soil and tree stand characteristics a century after cessation of slash-and-burn cultivation, a major historical intensive disturbance regime that was applied widely in boreal zone of Finland until late 1800s. We systematically sampled soil and tree stand parameters within former slash-and-burn and nearby control areas. Humus layer thickness and soil organic matter (SOM) stocks were still lower in the historical slash-and-burn than in control areas. Slash-and-burn areas also had a larger volume of live birch trees and a higher standing dead wood volume than control areas. Accordingly, organic matter (humus layer thickness and SOM stocks) correlated negatively with birch standing live tree volume. Combined OM stock in humus and uppermost 10 cm mineral soil layer was positively correlated with lying dead wood volume. Overall, we observed clear recovery of several natural properties but we also found that a century after cessation of frequent anthropogenic burnings, clear legacies of disturbance in the aboveand below-ground parts of boreal ecosystem were evident. Our results indicate that if only passive rewildening is applied as a restoration measure, the full recovery of boreal forest is slow and the effects of historical land-use may persist for over hundred years in soil and tree properties.
The right to a second chance: lessons learned from the experience of early school leavers who returned to education

Copyright © 2015 SIPS. Licencia Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (by-nc) Spain 3.0 CONTACT WITH THE AUTHORS FILIPE MARTINS. Universidade Católica Portuguesa. E-mail: fmartins@porto.ucp. pt THE RIGHT TO A SECOND CHANCE: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS WHO RETURNED TO EDUCATION DIREITO A UMA SEGUNDA OPORTUNIDADE: LIÇÕES APRENDIDAS DA EXPERIÊNCIA DE QUEM ABANDONOU E REGRESSOU À ESCOLA DERECHO A UNA SEGUNDA OPORTUNIDAD: LECCIONES APRENDIDAS DE LA EXPERIENCIA DE QUIEN ABANDONÓ Y REGRESÓ A LA EDUCACIÓN
A method for fault diagnosis in evolving environment using unlabeled data

Industrial components and systems typically operate in an evolving environment characterized by modifications of the working conditions. Methods for diagnosing faults in components and systems must, therefore, be capable of adapting to the changings in the environment of operation. In this work, we propose a novel fault diagnostic method based on the compacted object sample extraction algorithm for fault diagnostics in an evolving environment from where unlabeled data are collected. The developed diagnostic method is shown able to correctly classify data taken from synthetic and real-world case studies.
Current driven chiral domain wall motions in synthetic antiferromagnets with Co/Rh/Co

Spin–orbit torque that originates from spin Hall effect and Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction (DMI) can efficiently move chiral magnetic domain walls in perpendicularly magnetized wires. It has been shown that antiferromagnetically coupled composite domain walls across a ruthenium layer can be driven even faster by exchange coupling torque that is proportional to exchange coupling strength. Here, we report a current-driven motion of composite chiral domain walls in synthetic antiferromagnets with a rhodium spacer layer. It is found that the domain walls in the wire with a rhodium layer do not move as fast as that with a ruthenium layer although the exchange coupling in Co|Rh|Co is stronger than Co|Ru|Co, which is due to the formation of a large DMI at the Rh|Co interface. The Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction at the Co/Rh interface has the same sign and comparable strength to the Pt|Co interface, thus negating the exchange coupling torque. The spin Hall effect from rhodium is found to be as small as ruthenium. Our findings show that rhodium can be used to tailor the DMI strengths in the current-driven motion of chiral domain walls in various magnetic nanostructures.
Drought Resistance in Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) in Relation to Morphological, Physiological Parameters and Phenological Developments

Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) is a prehistoric domesticated crop among food legumes with a vital range of uses as food and feed owing to its protein-rich grains and straw. The cultivated lentils are broadly divided in two types of groups, the small-seeded (microsprma) and the bold seeded (macrosperma) (Erskine et al., 1994, Shrestha et al., 2006a, b, Mishra et al., 2014). Drought stress is an extremely universal and disadvantageous cause for crop yield loss in several areas of the world where lentils are in cultivation by forming community (McWilliams, 1986; Shrestha et al., 2006a, b). Lentil crop when sown during autumn or winter in South Asian countries as well as Mediterranean environments, are to face, occurrence of intermittent drought during the vegetative growth and terminal drought throughout their reproductive period when temperatures are ever-increasing and rainfall is declining (Yusuf et al., 1979; Siddique et International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 7 Number 01 (2018) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
SEASONAL INFLUENCE ON EFFICACY OF OESTRUS INDUCTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION PROTOCOLS IN ANOESTRUS BUFFALOES

SEASONAL INFLUENCE ON EFFICACY OF OESTRUS INDUCTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION PROTOCOLS IN ANOESTRUS BUFFALOES” Name of the Student: Name of the Major Advisor: Mungad Kunal S. Dr. J.A. Patel Department of Animal Reproduction, Gynaecology and Obstetrics College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Anand Agricultural University, ANAND – 388 001 The present investigation was aimed to evaluate the clinical response and monitor the peripheral plasma progesterone, biochemical and macro-minerals profiles in beyond 90 days postpartum true anoestrus buffaloes treated with different hormonal protocols (Ovsynch, Heatsynch and Triu-B, n=12 each) during low (summer) and high (winter) breeding seasons. The study was carried out in villages of Anand and Mahisagar districts of Gujarat on 48 true anoestrus buffaloes in each season including 12 anoestrus untreated buffaloes as control. The animals selected were followed for a period of 3 months post-treatment/post-breeding. All infertile animals identified were initially dewormed using Inj. Ivermectin @ 100 mg s/c, and an i/m injection of inorganic phosphorus (Inj. Alphos-40 @ 10 ml, Pfizer Animal Health) and multivitamins AD3E (Inj. Vetacept @ 10 ml, Concept Pharma) and were supplied with multi-minerals bolus (Minotas, Intas Pharma) @ 1 bolus daily for 7 days. The results of three hormonal protocols (Ovsynch, Heatsynch and Triu-B) were evaluated and compared between summer and winter seasons for the oestrus induction response, oestrus induction intervals and induced/first oestrus (with fixed time AI) as well as overall of three cycles’ conception rates, and monitoring plasma progesterone (by RIA), total protein, total cholesterol, calcium, inorganic phosphorus and magnesium (by autoanalyzer) profiles at different time intervals (day 0, 7, 9/10-AI) of treatment and day 21 post-FTAI in anoestrus buffaloes. Twelve true anoestrus buffaloes each during summer and winter seasons (G-I, Ovsynch) were administered with i/m injection of Buserelin acetate 10 μg (GnRH analogue, Inj. Ovulanta @ 2.5 ml, Vet Mankind) on day 0, inj. PGF2α 500 μg (Inj.
Estimation of Combining Ability and Gene Action Studies in Brinjal (Solanum melongena L.)

Brinjal or eggplant is an important solanaceous vegetable crop of Indian origin having wide variability with respect to different qualitative characters. In India, it is one of the most common, popular and principal vegetable crops grown throughout the country except higher altitudes. Being a centre of origin, eggplant has a huge genetics in India which offers much scope for improvement through heterosis breeding (Venketanaresh et al., 2014). To cope up with ever increasing demand of brinjal, it has become very important to breed high yielding and suitable varieties to boost up the production per unit area per unit time (Joshi et al., 2008). Now a day’s development of new variety/hybrid with specific fruit characteristic is most desirable traits for the breeders of brinjal in India as well as in the world (Ansari and Singh, 2014). For an effective breeding programme in brinjal, information regarding the general and specific combining ability and the types of gene effects influencing various traits enables the plant breeder to evaluate parental material and to decide a suitable breeding procedure for maximum character improvement. The variance of general combining ability (GCA) and specific combining ability (SCA) are related to the type of gene action involved and the relative magnitudes of additive genetic International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 10 (2017) pp. 3584-3591 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
Functional traits: Adaption of ferns in forest

Ferns that evolved from 400 million years ago show various functional traits and ecological strategies in extant species, over 80% of which belong to the youngest order Polypodiales. How the functional traits and strategies of ferns have changed during their evolutionary history remains unexplored. Here, we measured functional traits that are sensitive to environmental light and water availability in 345 fern species across fern phylogeny, and reconstructed their evolutionary histories. We found that ferns, mainly Polypodiales, have developed diversified functional traits in response to forest environments. Terrestrial species, especially Thelypteridaceae and Athyriaceae in eupolypods II, since the late Jurassic period, have shown decreased leaf mass per area (LMA) and area‐based leaf nitrogen (Narea), but increased mass‐based leaf nitrogen (Nmass) compared with early‐derived polypods. Epiphytic species, mainly those in Polypodiaceae, have shown reductions in Nmass and individual leaf area (Area) since the late Cretaceous period. The adaption of functional traits of Polypodiales to forest environment may have played a crucial role in fern radiation since the late Jurassic period. Integrative analysis of functional traits, especially numerical ones, may shed new light on plant evolution.
Is there anything Left? The politics of social spending in new democracies

The evolution of public social expenditures displays divergent patterns across non-western countries. This exploratory article argues that in order to understand the domestic sources of this divergence, institutional and structural explanations should be complemented with an actor-oriented perspective. Analyses of the role of party politics in non-OECD democracies, through multivariate fixed-effect regressions using data from 46 countries between 1995 and 2015, reveals a robust positive association between shifts towards Left party government and increases in total public social expenditures, also when controlling for structural and institutional factors. This association however seems potentially conditional on sufficient levels of economic growth. While indicating an impact of partisanship, further research is arguably needed regarding the origins, organization and policy outputs of parties in more recently democratized countries, as well as regarding the conditions under which the ideological orientation of parties in government are actually consequential.
Adaptive output‐feedback control for damped wave equations with unknown damping coefficient and corrupted boundary measurement

Adaptive output‐feedback control is investigated for a class of uncertain damped wave equations. The remarkable features of the system in question are as follows: (i) Unknown damping is allowed at the boundary; (ii) The boundary measurement is corrupted by an unknown harmonic disturbance. These features make the control problem essentially different from those in the related literature. To solve the problem, a novel adaptive output‐feedback control scheme is established for the system. Specifically, an ingenious observer is first introduced to reconstruct the unmeasured system state in the space domain. Based on this, a certain compensation mechanism is designed for the unknown damping coefficient and output disturbance by adaptive technique based on projection operator. Then, an output‐feedback controller is successfully designed by the backstepping method for ODEs, which guarantees that all states of the resulting closed‐loop system are bounded, and the original system state ultimately converges to an arbitrarily prescribed small neighborhood of the origin. Finally, a simulation example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
The inclusion of girls in Chilean mathematics classrooms: gender bias in teacher-student interaction networks (La inclusión de las niñas en las aulas de matemáticas chilenas: sesgo de género en las redes de interacciones profesor-estudiante)

ABSTRACT The gender gap in mathematics outcomes, where women are most affected, is well documented internationally and is particularly high in Chilean secondary education. This study explores the educational inclusion of girls in mathematics classrooms. The coding of videos from 79 school lessons, involving 2,295 students, allowed us to compare how and how much teachers interact with male and female students, analyse the moderating effect of academic achievement in these interactions and explore the differences among classrooms with regard to the inclusion of girls. Teacher-student interaction networks were represented via sociograms and modelled with multilevel Poisson regression. We found that girls interact less frequently with their mathematics teachers in interactions of diverse content, and this is the case in interactions initiated by the teacher as well as those initiated by the student. Academic achievement moderates these differences only in pedagogical interactions initiated by students. There is also significant variation in the inclusion of girls among classrooms, which is not consistently explained by the gender of the teacher or the gender composition of the class.
Patterns of vertical cyst distribution and survival in 100-year-old sediment archives of three spring dinoflagellate species from the Northern Baltic Sea

Abstract The history of expansion of bloom-forming cold water dinoflagellates in the Northern Baltic Sea was studied using 100-year-old sediment archives of their resting cysts. Vertical cyst distributions of Biecheleria baltica and Apocalathium malmogiense, two dinoflagellates indistinguishable by light microscopy and not recognized as distinct species in monitoring, and chain-forming Peridiniella catenata were analysed in Pb210 and Cs137 dated layers of a sediment core from deep, hypoxic accumulation bottoms of the Gulf of Finland. Cyst profiles showed that B. baltica and A. malmogiense were already present in the Baltic spring phytoplankton community at the beginning of the 20th century. This confirms that B. baltica, which was only recognized in the late 1980s, is a native species in the area. A drastic increase in B. baltica cyst concentrations in the 1930s to 1960s coincided with the acceleration of anthropogenic eutrophication. Large cyst deposits accumulated over several decades in the sediment which, by the 1980s, amounted to the seed stock necessary to inoculate dominant blooms. In the cyst records A. malmogiense always contributed a minor fraction of the two species. P. catenata had a relatively short cyst record in Gulf of Finland sediments despite demonstrated long-term presence in the plankton, which emphasizes that cyst-based historic surveys are not suitable for all cyst-forming dinoflagellates. This was corroborated by correspondence analyses of long-term plankton and cyst records which validated the trends from the sediment archive for B. baltica and A. malmogiense, but failed to do so for P. catenata. Germination experiments with 100-year-old cysts revealed a remarkable long-term survival capacity of A. malmogiense, making this species a suitable model for resurrection studies testing adaptation in heavily impacted systems such as the Baltic Sea.