Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SYMPTOMATOLOGY, CHARACTERISATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ROOT ROT DISEASE OF GERBERA

A sampling survey conducted in Thrissur district of Kerala on the occurrence of root rot disease in gerbera revealed that the disease was confined only to protected conditions. The disease was observed in a hydroponic unit which was more pronounced in July-August with a percent disease intensity of 69.44. Symptoms like stem or collar rot resulted in fatal infection with complete death of the plant. Pathogenicity of the isolate was carried out by soil inoculation and Microdroplet inoculation technique (MDIT). Cultural, morphological and molecular characteristion along with the description of symptom of root rot disease confirmed the identity of the pathogen as Phytophthora cryptogea. Sensitivity of the pathogen with contact, systemic and combination fungicides viz., Bordeaux mixture, copper hydroxide 77WP (Kocide), propineb 70WP (Antracol), cymoxanil (8%) + mancozeb (64%) (Curzate M-8), carbendazim (12%) + mancozeb (63%) (Saaf), tebuconazole 250EC (Folicur) revealed cent percent inhibition with all the three concentrations tested. Among the bioagents tested against Phytophthora cryptogea, a percent inhibition of 68.44 percent was observed with Trichoderma viride and 44.4% with P. fluorescens. In vivo study revealed that various treatments like propineb, cympxanil + mancozeb, carbendazim + mancozeb and copper hydroxide could reduce the disease incidence compared to the treatment with hexaconazole and T. viride.
Archives of Otolaryngology and Rhinology

Electronystamography (ENG) and video-oculography (VOG). ENG employs electrodes to record eye movement using the change in retinal-corneal potential. VOG is a method of recording the position of the pupil and calculating its angle with an infrared CCD camera. When comparing eye movement records taken by ENG and VOG, the latter has superior features: good spatial resolution, accurate recording of vertical components, and provides technical simplicity when performing recordings. SPEM measurement using VOG has been previously reported as a useful method for examinations of head trauma and stroke, in which quantitative analysis was used to compare patient and healthy groups [4,5], and for comparing fi ndings between multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease [6]. However, VOG is considered relatively expensive [7].
Study of Red Mud as an Alternative Building Material for Interlocking Block Manufacturing in Construction Industry

Before the end of the decade of the 1980’s red mud became a major concern in world environmental discussions. Red mud is a solid waste product of the Bayer process, the principal industrial means of refining bauxite in order to provide alumina as raw material for the electrolysis of aluminum by the Hall-Heroult Process. Red mud is composed of a mixture of solid and metallic oxide-bearing impurities, and presents one of the aluminum industry's most important disposal problems. The alumina industry is facing an important problem regarding the settling or separation of red mud during the production process as it not only affects the productivity of alumina but also its purity. Red mud cannot be disposed of easily and in most countries where red mud is produced, it is pumped into holding ponds. The utilization of red mud is of great significance from the point of view of resource conservation & sustainability of the aluminum industry. The direction of the researches undertaken to utilize red mud are based on their chemical, mineralogical and physical properties. There is an effective way of utilizing alumina red mud to make bricks. Only slight modification in the composition of red mud is required which can be done by incorporation of siliceous materials and admixtures. This paper aims at studying the behavior of interlocking blocks manufactured by using red mud for different variables. In this paper, the author is attempting to summarize the potential application of red mud in building materials industry and using the appropriate model of its utilization. The attention is to develop an extensive red mud utilization policy framework for building materials industry in the context of India as it has great potential of reducing the cost of construction material & developing a low cost housing technique considering the preservation of our environment.
Effect of Season on Mortality of Japanese Quail (Coturnix Coturnix Japonica) in Different Age Groups

Two years data on mortality of Japanese quail (Coturnixcoturnix japonica) of Central Poultry Development Organization (Eastern Region), Bhubaneswar (from October, 2012 to July, 2014) in three different seasons of summer, monsoon and winter were analyzed. The average temperature ranges between 10 0 C in winter to 45 0 C in summer. The average relative humidity ranges from 40% to 95%. Average annual rainfall is 154cm. The total chick (0-3 week) mortality was 3.65 % with a weekly value of 7.25 % in 1 st week, 2.06 % in 2 nd week and 0.93 % in 3 rd week. So far as seasons were concerned, 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd weeks mortality were 8.99 %, 3.12 % and 1.75 % in monsoon; 7.63 %, 2.52 % and 0.87 % in winter and 6.69 %, 1.62 % and 0.84 % in summer respectively. The mortality as recorded on total chicks rearing was significantly lowest (P<0.01) in summer followed by winter and monsoon. The season’s pooled mortality in grower (4-5 week) and adult (above 5 week) were 0.70 % and 0.53 % respectively. The overall Japanese quail death was significantly (P>0.01) higher in monsoon followed by winter and summer.
Efficient Design of Differential Trans- Conductance Amplifier with Sub-Threshold Biasing Stabilization in Low Power CMOS Technologies

In this paper, a low voltage differential CMOS trans-conductance amplifier using 180nm on cadence is presented. This design operates in sub threshold region of ±0.5V-1.5V and biasing stabilization has been checked by observing relationship between differential voltage and biasing variations on Nano-scale. Simulation results shows maximum differential output is obtained when biasing current reaches 500nA with CMRR 88db and static power consumption on normal input conditions is 241nW. In this paper, layout of OTA has been presented after verifying DRC and LVS by using assura tool of cadence suite. KeywordsOTA; virtuoso; assura; spectre; bias
Effect of an indigenously available herbal tooth whitening system on human enamel microhardness and micromorphology-an in-vitro study

The aim was to study the effects of indigenously available herbal tooth whitening product on the human enamel surface micro hardness and micro morphology. The methodology was forty enamel fragments were made from 20 extracted human teeth. The fragments were equally divided into two groups for application of a professionally prescribed bleaching agent and an indigenously available herbal tooth whitening agent. The products were applied onto the samples as per the application protocols. Micro hardness of each sample was analyzed pre and post bleaching treatment. Intragroup and inter-group comparisons were made. Two samples from each group were selected and were prepared for Scanning Electron microscopy (SEM) analysis. The images were obtained and compared to study the erosive effects of each agent. The Intra – group comparison of micro hardness values before and after treatment were analyzed using Wilcoxon signed rank test and the inter-group comparison of the micro hardness values were analyzed using MannWhitney U test. The level of significance was set as 0.05 and p values less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. The results showed that there existed no statistically significant difference in the micro hardness of the enamel specimen at baseline among both the groups, there was a statistically significant reduction in the micro hardness level in both post 14 days treatment. The fall in the micro hardness value in group A was 19.80 and that for group B was 35.31. The SEM images of the samples from both the group showed similar type of erosions. The present study showed that an indigenous herbal based tooth whitening system, marketed as an over the counter product produced similar changes in the enamel surface micro hardness and micro morphology comparable to that of a professionally prescribed bleaching agent.
Oral squamous cell carcinoma: early detection using brush scrape cytology and association with various risk factors

ABSTRACT Background The incidence of oral cancers and oral premalignant lesions is very high in India. Although biopsy followed by histopathology is considered as gold standard in diagnosis of these lesions, it may not be possible to do biopsy in all suspected cases who may be medically compromised or refuse to undergo biopsy. In such cases, brush cytology may offer an attractive alternative. Aims and Objectives This study was undertaken to know the utility of oral brush scrape cytology in detection of oral squamous cell carcinoma and correlating the oral premalignant and malignant lesions with various risk factors. Material and Methods 50 patients attending oral medicine and ENT outpatient department who exhibited oral lesions suspicious of premalignancy or malignancy were enrolled. All patients underwent oral scrapping using a toothbrush. Specimens were analyzed manually. Histopathological confirmation by biopsy was obtained wherever possible. Statistical tests were applied. Results Brush cytology technique showed a reasonable sensitivity and specificity in detecting oral premalignant and malignant lesions. Conclusion Oral brush cytology is simple, noninvasive, painless and rapid method in assessing oral premalignant and malignant lesions and useful particularly in population screening programme.
Significant association of CD4CD25Foxp3 regulatory T cells with clinical findings in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Nanjing Medical University (NJMU), Nanjing 211166, China; Nanjing First Hospital Affiliated to NJMU, Nanjing 210006, China; Department of Rheumatology, the First Affiliated Hospital of NJMU, Nanjing 210036, China Contributions: (I) Conception and design: X Yang, MJ Zhang, X Ji, H Wang; (II) Administrative support: X Yang, Y Shen, X Ji; (III) Provision of study materials or patients: X Yang, W Wang, H Mei, Y Shen; (IV) Collection and assembly of data: X Yang, W Wang, J Xu, MS Zhang, H Mei, Y Shen; (V) Data analysis and interpretation: X Yang, W Wang, J Xu, MS Zhang, MJ Zhang, X Ji, H Wang; (VI)Manuscript writing: All authors; (VII) Final approval of manuscript: All authors. Correspondence to: Huijuan Wang, MD. PhD. Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China. Email: wanghuijiuan@njmu.edu. cn.
Effectiveness Of Teaching & Learning Mathematics Using Children's Home Language And Cultural Tools

The purpose of this research paper is two-fold. First, the aim is to prove the effectiveness of using children’s home language and cultural tools in teaching and learning mathematics at primary school level in Fiji. For privacy reasons, the actual name of the participating school is not mentioned in this paper. Secondly, this paper also demonstrates how practicing teachers can use the problem-solving approach and selective analytics to do research in order to improve their own teaching and learning in the classroom. We believe that the new findings and methods demonstrated in this paper will help improve mathematics teaching & learning processes and motivate teachers to collaborate with fellow teachers and do more researches in their classrooms and to publish their works.
Pedestrian Detection for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems using Deep Learning Algorithms

Summary The notion of pedestrian detection is used in computer vision, which not only detects humans but also counts the numbers of pedestrians and determines their movement in real time. This technique is used in many applications such as surveillance, advanced robotics, intelligent vehicles and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). The pedestrian detection system needs acceleration to enable real-time adaptive processing. Hardware acceleration has the potential to speedup these algorithms, making real-time processing for many image and video processing. In order to meet the real-time requirement, high-speed pedestrian detection architecture must be designed carefully. This paper presents a pedestrian detection application for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems based on a Deep Learning algorithm. It's about proposing a structure of a Deep Learning model which makes it possible to improve the precisions existing in the state-of-the-art and the processing time by images. This is a very difficult problem because of the complexity of the task and the challenges presented by the detection of humans in general.
OC-073 The First Multicentre Experience from The UK and Ireland of the Use of the Hot Axios System for Transluminal Drainage of Pancreatic Fluid Collections

Introduction Pancreatic fluid collections (PFC) are a common local complication of pancreatitis with incidences of 5–16% and 20–40% in acute and chronic pancreatitis, respectively.1 Classification of PFC includes acute peripancreatic fluid collection, pancreatic pseudocyst, acute necrotic collection and walled-off necrosis (WON). A new lumen-apposing, covered self-expanding metal stent on a catheter-based delivery system (Hot AXIOS, Boston Scientific) may have higher technical success rates, easier deployment and lower migration than plastic stents. We present the first multicentre prospective case series from the UK and Ireland to assess success and complication rates associated with Hot AXIOS stent for the drainage of PFC. Methods All adult patients who had Hot AXIOS stent placement for PFC from July 2015-February 2016 were included. Eight centres participated (London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Cambridge, Manchester, Dublin and Leeds). All patients had CT of the PFC prior to placement. Data including technical success, resolution of collection, complications and stent migration were collected. Results Forty patients were treated with a single Hot AXIOS stent in each case. The median age was 57 years (range 31–78). 25 were male and 15 female. Indications were WON (24), pseudocyst (15) and abscess.1 The median size of the PFC was 11 cm (4–20 cm). Thirty-eight patients (95%) had trans-gastric stents, 1 had trans-duodenal and 1 had a trans-oesophageal stent. Procedures were technically successful in all patients. Of 22 patients with available follow-up data to date, the collection resolved in 19 (86%) and reduced in size in 3 (14%). The median time to resolution was 36 (7–208) days. Twelve patients (30%) had 33 necrosectomies and/or endoscopic lavage following stent insertion. Stents migrated out in 2 patients and was displaced during necrosectomy in 1. Serious adverse events occurred in 1/40 (2.5%): a small bowel obstruction resulting from stent migration, managed surgically. There was no procedure related or 30 day mortality (data available in 27 patients). Conclusion This multicentre case series demonstrates that the Hot AXIOS system is safe and effective in draining PFC with a technical success rate of 100% and low serious adverse event rate. Reference 1 Banks PA, Bollen TL, Dervenis C, et al. Classification of acute pancreatitis—2012: Revision of the Atlanta classification and definitions by international consensus. Gut 2013. Disclosure of Interest None Declared
Structured Information Extraction from On-line Advertisements-A Bayesian Approach

— Advertisements on websites are largely unstructured text even though individuals would naturally want to perform structured search over certain attributes of interest for purposes such as purchasing a car, a book or job searching. This paper describes a method for building an information extraction system for On-line Advertisements using various natural language processing techniques, machine learning, named entity recognition along with supervised learning algorithm. The information extracted from these advertisements can be used to perform search over certain attributes of interest.
The impact of Information Technology on Job Related Factors lik e Health and Safety, Job Satisfaction, Performance, Productivity and Work Life Balance

The impact of Information Technology on workplaces, individuals and society as a whole has increased dramatically during the last two decades of the 21st century. This period has seen maturation in the field of digital computing, combined with the use of telecommunications technology, in order to link many computers into what is 'virtually' a very large single network, the Internet. Data has become widely accessible, and readily inter-related. Implementation of new technology has lead to many changes in the workplace. This paper aims to study the impact of technology on various Job related factors, 5 shortlisted for the study i.e. Health and Safety, Job Satisfaction, Performance, Productivity and Work Life Balance. Which Job factor is getting affected to maximum extent with the introduction of technology? The study was done with the help of questionnaire based on Likert scale. Data was collected from 100 employees of Barco and CMC Ltd. Convenience sampling method was used. Data was analyzed through SPSS Software and excel to find out that Performance is the most impacted factor by introduction of new technology, followed by Job Satisfaction, Health and Safety, Productivity and work life balance. The factor analysis converted them into three components in which component 1 contributed more towards the impact of technology.
EFFECT OF FEEDING DIETS CONTAINING TWO DOSES OF LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM BJ0021 ON PERFORMANCE AND SOME CARCASS PARAMETERS OF LOCAL RABBIT

Our study had for objective the effect of feeding diets containing two dose of Lactobacillus plantarum BJ0021 on growth performance in local rabbit. Fifteen young rabbits were weaned and divided into three groups with respect body weight at 42 days of age. Control group(C) was feed a standard food regime. In the treated groups (D1 and D2) the C feed was supplemented with 10ml and 2×10ml fermented milk/animal/ day/seven weeks. The results showed that the supplementation of fermented milk diet with 2.16×107 cfu Lb. plantarum BJ0021 /ml could had a positive effect on the performance of growing local rabbit and commercial carcass weight.
Comparative Effects of Honey and Multivitamin on the Immune Response of Cockerel Chicks to Vaccination Against new castle Disease (ND) Using Live Attenuated and “Lasota” Vaccine

The comparative effects of honey and commercially available multivitamin (Vitaflash®, Kepro B.V. Holland) on the haemagglutination inhibition (HI) antibody response of cockerel chicks to oral vaccination against Newcastle disease (ND) at 3 weeks of age using live attenuated ND ‘LaSota’ vaccine was investigated. Sixty (60) day-old cockerel chicks were purchased and reared to 2 weeks of age. The chicks were randomly divided into six groups (A, B, C, D, E1 and E2) with 10 chicks per group. Chicks in group A were placed on honey for 7 days prior to vaccination and 7 days following vaccination, while chicks in group B were placed on honey for 7 days following vaccination. Similarly chicks in group C were placed on multivitamin (Vitaflash®, Kepro B.V. Holland) for 7 days prior to vaccination and 7 days following vaccination while chicks in group D were placed on the multivitamin for 7 days following vaccination. Chicks in group E1 (positive control) were place on plain drinking water ad libitum but were vaccinated at 3 weeks of age, while chicks in group E2(negative control) received neither treatment nor vaccination but were fed and placed on plain drinking water add libitum until the end of the experiment. Chicks in group A exhibited the highest ND HI antibody titre with a geometric mean titre (GMT) of 181.0, followed by chicks in group C that exhibited a significantly (P<0.05) lower ND HI titre with a GMT of 127.9. Chicks in groups E1 and E2 did not show any significant antibody titre throughout the period of the experiment. The high antibody titre demonstrated by chicks that were treated with honey before and after vaccination is an indication that honey could be a possible immune enhancer. A more detailed study is therefore required on the quantitative assessment of honey for antibody response in chicks.
THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AND ITS LINKAGES TO THE G HANAIAN ECONOMY-POLICES TO IMPROVE THE SECTOR’S PERFORMANCE

The study suggests that the construction sector pla ys a leading role in the improvement of socioeconomic conditions and the built environment in ev ery country. The study revealed that the constructi on sector remains as one of the key sectors in the eco nomy in terms of its share of GDP (i.e. 9.1% for 19 932011 period) and the overall industrial output( i.e . 35.9% for 1993-2011 period). Also, the paper esti ma ed Construction Sector Index for Ghana for the first t ime and the index revealed that construction sector has improved significantly over the past two decades. S imilarly, some empirical evidence from the economet ric estimation using the Engel Granger Causality and Jo hansen Co-integration methodologies confirmed the evidence that the construction sector activity prom oted economic growth in Ghana and the relationship remains positive. Finally, the paper concluded that , the construction sector when given the needed pus h in terms of capacity building, good policy initiatives and regulatory guidelines can provide the necessar y impetus for socio-economic development in Ghana.
Effect of Different Cooking Methods and Binding Materials on Proximate Composition, Physicochemical and Sensory Quality of Different Emulsion Based Chicken Products

The meat industry is focused on the development of new products with better nutritional properties and acceptable sensory quality by adopting innovative processing and cooking procedures. In this study, the effects of different cooking treatments (moist cooking, dry cooking and deep fat frying) and incorporation of binders (Rice-Oryza sativa and Ragi-Eleusine coracana) on poultry meat were investigated. The proximate composition, physicochemical and sensory acceptance (Colour, flavour, Texture, juiciness and overall acceptability) of the meat cooked using the different treatments were compared. The study revealed that moisture and fat differ significantly (p<0.05) among the different cooking methods. However no significant (p<0.05) changes observed for protein and ash. The pH of cooked products varies significantly (p<0.05) and pH was found to be lower in deep fat fried products. The cooking yield of deep fat fried product was significantly (p<0.05) lower than the dry and moist cooked products. There was no significant (P>0.05) difference in sensory ratings between emulsion based product prepared with different binders and also there was no significant (P>0.05) difference among the different cooking methods. Overall acceptability scores for all the products were more than 6.50 reflecting more than moderate acceptance of all products. The incorporation of rice and ragi as binder increased cooking yield and also gave better sensory ratings. Further, there was no significant (P>0.05) difference in physicochemical quality, proximate composition and sensory rating. Ragi which is known to be rich in iron can be effectively used in place of rice as binder in emulsion based chicken products.