Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Productivity and response of quality brassicas (Brassica sp.) cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) sequence under different sources of nutrients and sulphur levels

Information on comparative response of quality and traditional rapeseed-mustard genotypes to inorganic and organic source of nutrients are meager. Besides, organic mustard oil is becoming popular in the market. Hence, present experiment was conducted in a fixed plot field at New Delhi between 20052007. Two genotypes of Indian mustard { Brassica juncea (L.) Czernj & Cosson} viz., Pusa Mahak {high erucic acid (EA) and glucosinolate con- tent (GC)}, and Pusa Karishma low in EA and high GC and one genotype of summer rape ( Brassica napus L.) viz., GSC 3A (low in EA and GC) were evaluated under organic and inorganic sources of nutrients and sulphur (S) levels and residual effect of treatments were examined on succeeding cowpea [ Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. ] for green pods. Pusa Mahak recorded greater number of siliquae/plant and test weight, while number of seeds/ siliqua were found maximum in GSC-3A Pusa Mahak (2.08 t/ha) and Pusa Karishma (1.91 t/ha) being on par produced significantly higher seed yield than GSC-3A (1.45 t/ha). In first year, seed yield (2.13 t/ha) recorded was maximum owing to integrated use of nutrients, while in the second crop cycle, integrated and organic source of nutrients, recorded similar seed yield (2.30 and 2.23 t/ha), but both the treatments were markedly superior when compared with fertilizers. Application of sulphur @ 40 kg/ha produced 19.3% higher seed yield than control. Residual effect of integrated nutrient management (INM) and organic nutrition on green pod yield of cowpea was found significant over fertilizers. System productivity as mustard seed equivalent was recorded maximum with Pusa Mahak-cowpea system, INM in the first crop cycle and organic use in the second crop cycle and 40 kg S/ ha. Significant interaction was recorded between the genotypes and S levels. S uptake in seed and unit response to S application (kg seed/kg S) was highest in Pusa Mahak (10.4).
Pediatric dentist accessibility and post-operative complications of laryngeal mask airway versus nasotracheal intubation in full mouth rehabilitation under general anaesthesia: a randomised controlled trial

Background: Nasotracheal intubation (NTI) is the standard used technique for treating children’s teeth under general anaesthesia (GA). Nevertheless, it may cause adverse effects like laryngeal pain, post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV), and dysphonia. Hence, this study aimed to compare the pediatric dentist’s access to the mouth, PONV, laryngeal pain, dysphonia, patients’ recovery time, parents satisfaction and operators satisfaction for children received NTI or an LMA.Materials and methods: Fifty children were randomised to either NTI or LMA groups. One expert pediatric dentist performed full mouth rehabilitation for all children. An expert anaesthetist used 8% sevoflurane mask for induction, followed by airway management either with LMA or NTI. Muscle relaxant was not administered for both groups to permit lung muscles to work normally during operation. Results: The baseline characteristics were similar between NTI and LMA with no statistically significant difference. Regarding the postoperative laryngeal pain and dysphonia, LMA showed less risk of occurrence with a relative risk of 0.27 (95% CI: 0.1, 0.69) and 0.22 (95% CI: 0.1, 0.5) respectively, and these results were statistically significant (P 0.05). Conclusion: For this group of Egyptian children who underwent full-mouth dental rehabilitation under general anaesthesia, the LMA provided less risk for postoperative laryngeal pain and dysphonia. However, the pediatric dentist had better accessibility and workability with NTI, which subsequently decreased the operation time significantly.
The macroecological distribution of avian functional diversity : environment, extinction risk and protected area coverage

134 bird species have gone extinct since 1500 and more than a fifth are currently threatened or near-threatened. Consequences of biodiversity loss for ecosystems depend on community composition rather than simply species richness, hence interest in functional diversity (FD) - variety of traits that influence ecosystem functioning – has increased. This thesis uses a global set of avian traits and geographic range maps to investigate the macroecological distribution of FD. Old World latitudinal gradients of FD are found to reflect contemporary environment, particularly energy availability. Analyses restricted to sedentary species reveal the importance of migration (e.g. for breeding assemblages a positive association with temperature seasonality explains 6.7% of the variance in FD having accounted for species richness, whereas a negative association explains 21.4% for residents). This is further investigated by comparing seasons across the Palaearctic-Afrotropical flyway, e.g. functional richness (volume of trait space occupied by an assemblage), which ranges from 0 to 0.33, declines by 0.08-0.17 in the northernmost cells in the non-breeding season compared to the breeding season. Some traits increase sensitivity to human disturbance, e.g. habitat breadth, but birds across South and Southeast Asia are used to demonstrate scale-dependence; traits explain 21.4% of the variance in global extinction risk compared to 6.7% for local extinction with diet type more important in the former and use of manmade sites in the latter. Globally, narrow-ranging species are less likely to inhabit protected areas (12% of land surface) and analyses show they are associated with particular regions of trait space (those related to higher habitat strata, feeding at lower trophic levels and smaller body size) compared to better protected, wide-ranging species. By identifying the main environmental correlates of FD, factors associated with extinction risk and current FD protection, these findings could help identify areas at future risk of decreasing delivery of ecosystem processes.
Analysis of Heavy Metals in Tea Soil, Tea Leaves and Seagim Dam Water across the Seasons in Kakara District of Taraba State, Nigeria

roadside soils, riverbanks urban the most serious environmental Abstract: The levels of heavy metals were assessed in tea soil, tea leaves and Seagim dam water samples collected from Kakara tea estate, Taraba State. The concentration of heavy metals was determined by the use of AAS. The concentration of Ca, Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, K, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn in all the soil samples collected across the season ranged from [6.102-11.00],[0.023-0.873],[0.029-0.058],[0.241-0.410],[0.900-1.958],[1.366-20.80],[0.263-0.496],[0.023-0.496],[0.018-0.068]and[0.110-0.275] mg/kg, the concentration of Ca, Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, K, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn in all the leaves samples collected across the season ranged from [0.982-3.566],[0.014-0.029],[0.010-0.071],[0.059-0.204],[0.066-0.755],[19.98-38.66],[0.106-0.369], [0.008-0.031], [0.006-0.099] and [0.080-0.199) mg/kg, the concentration of Ca, Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, K, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn in all the water samples collected across the season ranged from [9.029-13.74],[0.014-0.151],[0.063-0.114],[0.090-0.204],[1.604-2.069],[3.013-6.711],[0.262-0.429],[0.058-0.112],[0.043-0.113] and [0.128-0.225] mg/dm3 respectively. The result analysis showed that the mean concentration of heavy metal was higher in wet season than in dry season and among the metals analyzed K, Ca and Fe were the most abundance in all the samples. The concentrations of heavy were found to belower than the maximum permissible level.
Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing Intrusion Pattern Recognition Based on GAF and CNN

This article proposes an intrusion pattern recognition scheme based on Gramian Angular Field (GAF) and convolutional neural network (CNN) for the dual Mach–Zehnder Interference (DMZI) distributed fiber perimeter security system, which has the advantages of fast recognition speed and high recognition accuracy rate. Compared with traditional recognition algorithms lack the ability to extract deep features, GAF algorithm is used to transform the intrusion signals of 1-D time series to 2-D images which can present more deep features and maintain the time domain dependence of the signals, meanwhile, each intrusion signal corresponds to a unique fingerprint. Then, this GAF algorithm combined with the appropriate CNN model is able to extract deep features and recognize the intrusion patterns accurately. Besides, GAF algorithm is insensitive to the fluctuation of power source in the optical path, so the robustness as well as the practicability of the system are improved effectively. The experiments demonstrated that the average recognition accuracy rate of three common natural intrusion events and three human intrusion events on fence (wind blowing, light rain, heavy rain, knocking, impacting and slapping) can reach to 97.67%, and the detection response time is only about 0.58 s, which can meet the requirements of real-time emergency monitoring.
Higher and lower‐level relationships of the deep‐sea fish order Alepocephaliformes (Teleostei: Otocephala) inferred from whole mitogenome sequences

Fishes of the order Alepocephaliformes, slickheads and tubeshoulders, constitute a group of deep-sea fishes poorly known in respect to most areas of their biology and systematics. Morphological studies have found alepocephaliform fishes to display a mosaic of synapomorphic and symplesiomorphic characters, resulting in great difficulties when attempting to resolve intra- and interrelationships. Molecular data recently added to the confusion by removing Alepocephaliformes from the Euteleostei and placed them as incertae sedis within the Otocephala. In the present study we attempt to further clarify relationships of Alepocephaliformes by adding newly determined whole mitogenome sequences from 19 alepocephaliforms in order to address 1) phylogenetic position of Alepocephaliformes within the Otocephala; and 2) intrarelationships of Alepocephaliformes. The present study includes 96 taxa of which 30 are alepocephaliforms and unambiguously aligned sequences were subjected to partitioned maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses. Results from the present study support Alepocephaliformes as a genetically distinct otocephalan order as sister clade to Ostariophysi (mostly freshwater fishes comprising Gonorynchiformes, Cypriniformes, Characiformes, Siluriformes and Gymnotiformes). The disputed family Bathylaconidae was found to be an artificial assemblage of the two genera Bathylaco and Herwigia, with the former as the sister group of the family Alepocephalidae and the latter nested within Alepocephalidae. Platytroctidae was found to be monophyletic as sister clade to the rest of Alepocephaliformes. Previously unrecognized clades within the family Alepocephalidae are presented and a clade comprising Alepocephalus, Conocara and Leptoderma was recovered as the most derived. As long as the current classification is being followed, the genera Alepocephalus, Bathytroctes, Conocara and Narcetes were all found non-monophyletic. © 2009 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2009, 98, 923–936.
The potential to limit feed dairy replacement heifers.

The goals of a dairy replacement management program are to rear heifers at low economic and environmental costs without compromising future lactation performance. To meet these objectives, heifers are commonly fed diets containing high fiber forages (MPS, 2003), which meet the low energy requirement (NRC, 2001) of replacement heifers. Feeding heifers low energy, high fiber forages also helps minimize overconditioning at calving which can be detrimental to lactation performance (Hoffman et al., 1996). Total feed costs and feed efficiency are, however, often over-looked with feeding heifers diets containing predominately high fiber forages. Historically, research (Hoffman et al., 1996; Van Amburgh et al.; 1998, Radcliff et al., 2000) has been focused on feeding heifers higher energy diets to reduce calving age (recommended (22 to 24 months) as a methodology to shorten the length of the rearing period and correspondingly reduce feed costs. Although this strategy has the potential to lead to an earlier return on feed investment, decreasing the calving age frequently results in a decrease in lactation performance (Hoffman et al., 1996; Van Amburgh et al., 1998; Radcliff et al., 2000). Another strategy to reduce heifer feed costs is to feed higher energy diets and limit the amount of the diet fed, controlling average daily gain (ADG) which could effectually yield a calving age and body condition score similar to feeding high forage diets. This management strategy will be referred to as limit feeding for the remainder of this paper. Limit feeding has the potential to reduce feed costs, increase feed efficiency, and decrease fecal excretion, while preserving the rearing period time course which to date has been difficult to alter without negative health and production effects. This paper will review biological and behavioral issues associated with limit feeding dairy replacement heifers.
Parámetros hematológicos en pollos de engorde criados en una granja de producción cerrada en el trópico bajo

Hematology and blood chemistry are useful tools to establish a definitive diagnosis, to guide and explore the nature of pathophysiological situations that affect birds. Several diseases of poultry can change blood parameters, which are little studied in Colombia. This study aims to determine degrees of blood hematological parameters in broilers (1-42 days old) reared under experimental conditions. Blood samples were taken during the second, fourth and sixth weeks of age. Average results were: hematocrit (PCV %): 27.53; hemoglobin (Hb g/dL): 9.20; mean corpuscular volume (MCV fl): 43.10; mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC g/dL): 33.17; erythrocytes (Eri 106 μl): 6.98; leukocytes (Leu 103μL): 19.69; absolute relative values for lymphocyte (Lin %): 72.58; heterophile (Het %): 35; monocytes (Mon %): 9.8; eosinophils (Eos %): 17.8, and basophils (Bas %): 1.08. These results are within normal ranges, and present small variations attributable to environmental conditions and to those of confinement. Therefore, further studies are needed on this topic in the region.
The geological setting and palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological reconstructions of the Upper Permian insect beds at Belmont, New South Wales, Australia

The entomofauna of the Tatarian insect beds within the Newcastle Coal Measures at Belmont, north of Sydney, was described many years ago. A new collection contains some undescribed species, particularly beetles; a new exposure of the fossiliferous deposits is now documented. The Newcastle Coal Measures consist of sandstones, conglomerates, shales, coal and tuffs, which were deposited in the Hunter Trough. The depositional environment consisted of a series of very shallow, stagnant freshwater pools along a gravel river channel system within a regional coal swamp. A volcanic event produced a volcanic ash dump, causing a "snapshot" kill of insects, validating possible interpretation of percentages of insect fossils in ecological modelling. The pool community included Conchostraca, Permosyne beetles and extremely rare insect larvae. A community on swamp banks adjacent to the water courses was comprised of Glossopteris-dominated flora and Phyllotheca, with an insect-dominated, first-level consumer community of phloem-feeding Hemiptera and possibly pollenivorous Mecoptera. A leaf-litter and bark-dwelling community included Protelytroptera, Psocoptera and archostematan Coleoptera. Neuroptera, extremely rare Trichoptera, and ancestors of the Orthoptera were also present in small numbers. Adult Neuroptera fossils suggest the presence of their predatory larvae and this group, along with the Odonata, are considered to have been the predatory components within this environment. No chelicerates, tetrapods or other potential top predators have been found in this, or proximal, facies. Disruptive colour patterns in some of the insects may indicate predator-prey relationships. Of interest also is the identification of a number of Glossopteris leaves with chewed margins. If these observations are correct, they would represent one of the earliest records of this kind of ichnofossil in Australia.
A New Composition of Nanosized Silica-Silver for Control of Various Plant Diseases

The present study addressed the efficacy of nanosized silica-silver for controlling plant pathogenic microorganisms. The nanosized silica-silver consisted of nano-silver combined with silica molecules and water soluble polymer, prepared by exposing a solution including silver salt, silicate and water soluble polymer to radioactive rays. The nanosized silica-silver showed antifungal activity against the tested phytopathogenic fungi at 3.0 ppm with varied degrees. In contrast, a number of beneficial bacteria or plant pathogenic bacteria were not significantly affected at 10 ppm level but completely inhibited by 100 ppm of nanosized silicasilver. Among the tested plant pathogenic fungi, the new product effectively controlled powdery mildews of pumpkin at 0.3 ppm in both field and greenhouse tests. The pathogens disappeared from the infected leaves 3 days after spray and the plants remained healthy thereafter. Our results suggested that the product developed in this study was effective in controlling various plant fungal diseases.
Self‐incompatibility in Beta vulgaris L.

As early as 1942, a rather complex self-incompatibility mechanism in sugar beet was discovered by Owen, but his two-locus interpretation appeared to be insufficient. Observations presented in this paper, including F1, F2, F3, F4 and F2 × F3 families, all favoured a model involving four gametophytic S-loci with complementary interaction. It is pointed out that more than the four S-loci so far identified may exist in a hidden state of homozygosity. This complementary S-mechanism is in principle identical with the two-locus system in the monocotyledonous family Gramineae. Caryophyllales, the taxonomic order of Beta, is generally considered a rather close derivative of those early dicotyledones that also gave rise to the monocotyledones. Hence it is suggested that these early dicots possessed several co-operating S-loci, and that multi-S-locus systems may still exist in many species, even among those hitherto considered to carry only one S-locus. Apparently, many researchers did not seriously realize the possibility of multi-locus systems, and therefore worked with too limited materials, methods and hypotheses.
Influence of the Work Environment on Job Satisfaction among Public Secondary School Teachers in Nakuru West Sub County, Kenya

Job satisfaction among public secondary school teachers plays a key role in how they perform their functions. The study sought to determine the influence of work environment on job satisfaction among public secondary school teachers. The study was guided by Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design and carried out in Nakuru West Sub County, Nakuru County, Kenya. The study targeted 326 teachers from 9 public secondary school teachers in Nakuru West Sub County. A sample size of 150 respondents obtained using stratified random sampling was used for the study. Data for the study collected using structured questionnaires. The validity and reliability of data collection instruments was ascertained through content validity and internal consistency respectively. The findings revealed that work environment (β = 0.505; p ≤ 0.05) significantly influence satisfaction among public secondary school teachers in Nakuru West Sub County, Kenya. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that work environment significantly influenced satisfaction among public secondary school teachers in Nakuru West Sub County, Kenya. The positive and moderate relationship between the work environment and job satisfaction observed implied that improving the work environment in the schools would lead to improvements in teachers’ job satisfaction. Therefore, the study recommends with respect to policy that the Ministry of Education should make minimum policies on the level of school infrastructure required for public secondary schools and also make provisions for upgrading existing school infrastructure
Analysis of psychiatric consultations in the department of neurology and stroke unit: diagnosis and therapy.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to analyze psychiatric consultations of patients hospitalized in the Department of Neurology and Stroke Unit (DN/SU) of University Clinical Center in Katowice from 2017 to 2018. METHODS A retrospective analysis of psychiatric consultations, psychiatric diagnoses (according to the ICD-10) and treatment recommendations was done. RESULTS 719 psychiatric consultations were performed in all hospital departments in the analyzed period. 488 (67.87%) consultations were conducted in the Department of Neurology and Stroke Unit. Most patients who required psychiatric consultations were diagnosed with Huntington's disease (n = 25; 37.31%), Parkinson's disease (n = 60; 23.9%) and epilepsy (n=40; 22.73%). The most commonpsychiatric diagnoses included organic mental disorders (n=229; 55.85%), particularly organic mood disorders (n =73; 14.96%) and organic anxiety disorders (n =32;6.56%) whereas in thecase of vascular diseases themost common diagnoses included disturbances of consciousness associated with delirium (n =30; 40.54%). The majority of consultations (n = 388; 79.51%) resulted in the onset or modification of pharmacological treatment. The most frequently prescribed drugs were: neuroleptics (n =174; 35.66%), mostly atypical (n = 152; 87,36%), and antidepressants (n = 230; 47.13%), mostly SSRIs (n = 216; 93.91%). In patients > 60 years of age organic disorders were more prevalent (n =179; 66.30% vs. n = 49; 35.0%) and neuroleptics were more frequently prescribed (n = 131; 42.12% vs. n= 44; 24.86%) compared to patients < 60 years. CONCLUSIONS Patients in the department of neurology and stroke unit underwent a psychiatric consultation most frequently. Optimizing the care of aneurological patient is related to close cooperation of a neurologist and a psychiatrist, as well as developing and updating common positions for the management of selected disease entities.
Questioning the evidence behind the Saturation Model for testosterone replacement therapy in prostate cancer

Published in 2009, the Saturation Model suggested that there were limits to which androgen encouraged growth of the prostate. This was, in particular, applied to prostate cancer, where conventional wisdom since Huggins has considered it almost taboo for a patient being treated with cancer to receive testosterone replacement therapy (TRT). Since then, several studies began to investigate the application of TRT in, at first, mild and stable prostate cancer patients. While early reports seem promising, the validity of the Saturation Model had not been addressed. The current review investigates the evidence synthesis behind the Saturation Model, based on its original publication where it was presented. The evidence reviewed includes in vitro, in vivo and clinical studies that were referenced as the basis when the model was presented. Despite promising associations, the evidence employed were troublingly taken out of context in many cases and applied freely in cases where it would be unwise to do so. In light of some shortcomings in evidence synthesis, we advise some caution when applying the Saturation Model in prostate cancer.