Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EFFECT OF CHLOROCHOLINE CHLORIDE (CCC) ON PLANT GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT Lone,

Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh –202002, India. 1Division of Plant Breeding and Genetis, S.K. University of Agriculture Science and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar, Srinagar (J&K)-191 121 1Division of Pomology, S.K. University of Agriculture Science and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar, Srinagar (J&K)-191 121 3Division of Sericulture, S.K. University of Agriculture Science and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar, Srinagar (J&K)-191 121 4Department of Vegetables, Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana – 141 004
Determinants of YMT utilization by farmers in North- Central Nigeria

Scarcity of seed-yams has drastically reduced yam production in Nigeria. For this reason, Yam Minisett Technology (YMT) was developed and disseminated to farmers. This study investigated the determinants of YMT utilisation by farmers in north-central Nigeria. Multistage sampling procedure was used; Benue, Kogi, Kwara and FCT were randomly selected from north-central Nigeria. Fifty percent of ADP zones, blocks and cells were randomly selected to obtain 220 respondents used for the study. Data was collected using structured interview schedule and analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Respondents’ mean age, household size, farming experience and farm size were 47.5±5.7 years, 5.2±1.6, 12.0±6.6 years and 1.4±0.6ha respectively. Majority of the respondents were male (84.1%), married (86.8%), secondary occupation (55.0%), scattered plots (74.1%), no formal education (58.6%), membership of farmers’ association (58.4%) and all acquired land through inheritance. Utilisation of YMT was significantly related to respondents’ age (r=-0.65), farming experience (r=-0.64), annual income (r=-0.57) and household size (r=-0.41). Utilisation of YMT was significantly increased by formal education (β=0.29) and secondary occupation (β=0.22) but significantly reduced with extension visits (β=-0.25) and age (β=-0.12). There were significant difference in YMT utilisation (F=4.059) across states. Improved extension services and membership of farmers association were recommended.
Role of CT imaging in patients sustaining blunt injury of abdomen, retrospective analysis from a tertiary care hospital

Background: Blunt abdominal trauma is a frequently encountered emergency with associated significant morbidity and mortality. Since conservative nonsurgical therapy is preferred for all but the most severe injuries affecting the solid viscera, CT imaging is useful in detecting severe solid organ and bowel injuries which require surgical management. Objective: To analyze the profile of abdominal injuries presenting to the emergency medicine department of a tertiary care teaching hospital. Materials and methods: The study was a retrospective analysis of hospital records conducted in Velammal Medical College and Hospital, Madurai, which is a tertiary care teaching hospital in south India. The study was conducted from May 2014 to January 2016. People reporting to the emergency, with suspected abdominal injuries and evaluated for the same by CT abdomen were included in the study. Results: CT had 100% negative predictive value and highly specific in ruling out significant abdominal injuries. Spleen was the most common organ injured in study population, seen in 32 (42.10%) patients. The other common organs injured were liver and kidneys, which were injured in 24 (31.57%) and 16 (21.05%) patients respectively. Only 25% of the patients in our study required surgical intervention, which was for Grade IV/V splenic injuries, hepatic injury with active contrast extravasation, hepatic pseudo aneurysm, bowel and diaphragmatic injuries. Rajalakshmi Preethi G, Mariappan M, Madhusudhanan J, Arun AC. Role of CT imaging in patients sustaining blunt injury of abdomen, retrospective analysis from a tertiary care hospital. IAIM, 2016; 3(9): 79-86. Page 80 Conclusions: CT is highly useful in evaluation of hemodynamically stable patients with suspected blunt abdominal trauma. Majority of the patients with abdominal injury were successfully managed conservatively.
Creativity and Academic Achievement of Higher Secondary School Students in Tamilnadu

The aim of this research is to examine if a relationship exists between creativity and academic achievement and if the relationship differs between males and females. Two research questions are analyzed in this study: (1) what is the relationship between different aspects of creativity and academic achievement? (2) Is there any significant gender differences regarding the relationship between different aspects of creativity and academic achievement? Participant (N=118; male=67 and female=51) completed creativity test. Cumulative grade point average (CGPA) was used to select the participants. Creativity was measured using the KhatenaTorrance Creative Perception (KTCPI) test. Pearson correlation analysis indicated that aspects of creativity were not related to academic achievement for both males and females. However, implications of the findings for this study in creativity and academic achievement are discussed.
Interplay of antioxidants in Alzheimer’s disease

The generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) results in oxidative stress, leading to damage of tissue via many cellular molecular pathways. ROS can result in damage of principal cellular components of the cell such as lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids which then cause cell death via different modes of necrosis or apoptosis. Therefore, it is very important to maintain the redox status in our body. This is maintained by balance in the production of free radicals and antioxidants. Oxidative stress is the main phenomena which occur in progression of many diseases such as diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases, cancers etc. Alzheimer disease (AD) is one of the neurodegenerative disease and is common form of dementia in elderly people. The etiology of this disease is multifactorial; pathologically it is accompanied with accumulation of amyloid beta and neurofibrillary tangles. Accumulation of amyloid beta and mitochondrial dysfunction leads to oxidative stress. There is natural antioxidant defence system in our body which helps us to prevent us from various diseases via different mechanisms. Antioxidants are believed to act against the detrimental effects of ROS and thereby preventing or treating oxidative stress-related diseases. The nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is an emerging regulator of cellular resistance to oxidants. It controls the basal and induced expression of antioxidant response element-dependent genes. The current review examined the extensive role of oxidative stress in AD. Further investigation into the role that oxidative stress mechanisms seem to play in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease may lead to novel clinical interventions.
Narrow Diameter Implants Compared to Regular Diameter Implants Installed in the Posterior Region of the Jaws-Results from One-Year Follow Up

Purpose: The aim of this prospective clinical study was to analyze marginal bone loss around Narrow Diameter Implants (NDIs) in comparison with that of Regular Diameter Implants (RDIs) installed in the posterior region of the jaws after one year of loading with single prostheses. Material and Methods: A total of 21 patients with a mean age of 57.2 years were included in the study. The patients received one implant of each diameter in the maxilla or in the mandible. Panoramic radiographs were realized immediately after prostheses installation (T0) and one year after loading (T1). Measurements were performed from implant shoulder to the first point of bone/implant contact. The differences in marginal bone change between the groups were analyzed by Student t-test for paired samples. A level of 95% of significance was adopted. Results: A total of 42 implants were installed (21 RDIs and 21 NDIs). At the end of the follow-up period (12 months of loading), implant success and survival rates of 100% were observed. The bone loss around implants at T0 was 0.41 (± 0.45) mm for NDIs and 0.47 (± 0.60) mm for RDIs and at T1 was 1.3 (± 0.3) mm for NDIs and 1.24 (± 0.3) mm for RDIs. No statistically significant differences between the groups were found (p>0.05). Conclusion: This study demonstrated that RDIs and NDIs produced similar marginal bone alterations patterns after one year of loading, regardless the implant location, indicating that NDIs may be used in the posterior region of the jaws with single unit prostheses in selected patients.
SPRINT Blood Pressure

See related article, pp 42–50 Epidemiological data indicating that the linear relationship between blood pressure (BP) and cardiovascular outcomes continues even below the traditional thresholds defining hypertension1 have led to the hypothesis that in high-risk patients, in whom small relative risk reductions translate into large absolute benefits, achieving BP values below lower thresholds might be clinically useful. The results of the few intervention studies specifically designed to provide an answer to the long debated question on how low BP should be attained in patients at high cardiovascular risk were not sufficiently consistent to support any solid recommendation in this regard, however.2–6 With the recent publication of the SPRINT (Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial), it seemed that strong evidence in favor of lowering systolic BP <120 mm Hg in selected high-risk patients was finally provided.7 Briefly, 9361 high-risk participants without diabetes mellitus or stroke history and with a clinic systolic BP (SBP) of ≥130 mm Hg were randomly allocated to a standard treatment group with a SBP target <140 mm Hg or to an intense treatment group with a SBP target <120 mm Hg. Significantly lower rates of cardiovascular events (by 25%) and all-cause mortality (by 27%) were observed in the intense treatment group than in the standard treatment one.7 However, SPRINT results have raised several controversies on the applicability of its findings to hypertensive patients seen in a daily practice clinic,8 also because of many debated methodological aspects. In particular, a serious methodological issue is related to how BP was measured, because in SPRINT clinic BP was measured 3 times automatically with a validated oscillometric device after the patient had been left alone for 5 minutes in the examination room.9–11 This approach, called by Kjeldsen et al11 unobserved automated BP, is substantially identical …
RISK OF INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS IN TAIWAN: RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY

Background: The incidence rate of infective endocarditis (IE) in Taiwan is high. Thus, we investigated the incidence and risk factors of IE among Taiwanese patients. Objective: In this retrospective cohort study, IE cases from 1998 to 2010 were identified from the National Health Insurance Research Database through the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification. Poisson regression models were used to assess the relative risks (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of IE associated with sex, age, and odds ratios (ORs) of comorbidities. Among 16,924 patients with IE, 108,22 (51.60%) were male and 6,102 (48.40%) were female. Results: A total of 59.29% patients were older than 50 years. The annual crude incidence was 4.34–6.86 per 100,000 person-years. Our data also demonstrated that the highest incidence rate was on people aged 70–79 years. The incidence rate of IE was higher in males than in females in the 40to 49-year-old group (RR = 3.12; 95% CI, 2.84–3.43). Staphylococcal (61.38%) and Streptococcal species (28.44%) were the most common causative pathogens. Males showed more statistically significant comorbidities of hypertension (OR = 5.58; 95% CI, 4.32–7.20), disease of aortic valve (OR = 5.01; 95% CI, 4.13–6.08), acute respiratory failure (OR = 9.23; 95% CI ,7.23–11.78), and drug abuse (OR = 6.39; 95% CI, 3.37–12.13) (p < 0.0001) than females. Conclusions: The Taiwanese study revealed a high incidence of IE in men and elderly subjects. Staphylococcal species and cardiovascular and infective valve prevention strategies may help reduce the risk of IE.
Effect of Negative Emotions on the Fundamental Frequency and Formants

--Speech signal provides rich information about the emotional state of the speaker. Therefore, emotion recognition of speech has become one of the research themes in the speech processing and applications based on human-computer interaction. This paper provides an experimental study and examines the detection of negative emotions such as fear and anger regarding the neutral emotional state. The dataset is collected from recorded speech in arabic moroccan dialect. Our goal is firstly to study the effects of emotion on the acoustic characteristics chosen namely the fundamental frequency F0 and the first four formants F1, F2, F3 and F4, and secondly to compare our results with previous works. We also investigate the influence of phonemes on the relevance of these characteristics in the detection of emotion. Finally we examine the influence of the speaker gender in this study. For this purpose, we performed classification tests using the WEKA software by three algorithms. We found that F0 has the best recognition rate regardless of phonemes and gender of the speaker. In addition, F2 has a recognition rate that almost reaches the one of F0 in the case of plosive phonemes.
Research Challenges of Agile Estimation

Projects that are over-budget, delivered late, and fall short of user’s expectations have been a common problem area for software development efforts for years. Agile methods, which represent an emerging set of software development methodologies based on the concepts of adaptability and flexibility, are currently touted as a way to alleviate these reoccurring problems and pave the way for the future of development. The estimation in Agile Software Development methods depends on an expert opinion and historical data of project for estimation of cost, size, effort and duration. In absence of the historical data and experts the previous method like analogy and planning poker are not useful. This paper focuses on the research work in Agile Software development and estimation in Agile. It also focuses the problems in current Agile practices.
Religious Commitment and Quality of Life among a Sample of Iranian Undergraduate Students

Objective: In the present study, we evaluated the relationship between religious commitment and quality of life among undergraduate students. Methods: Two questionnaires including the Religious Commitment Scale, to assess four dimensions of belief, ritual, experience and consequence; and the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), to evaluate vitality, physical functioning, bodily pain, general health perceptions, physical problems, emotional problems, social functioning and mental health, were completed by 200 undergraduate students aged 18 to 30 years old. Results: We found that religious commitment can predict health-related quality of life among undergraduate students. We also found that religious commitment has significant effect on bodily pain, physical functioning, physical problems and vitality. Conclusion: There are significant association between religious commitment and quality of life in undergraduate students.
THE IMPACT OF MONETARY POLICY ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SRI LANKA: A STUDY ON PANEL DATA

Economic growth is an emerging concept both in developed and developing countries, when determining many economic indicators specifically increasing standard of living, overcoming poverty, decreasing unemployment level, upholding per-capita income and attaining more foreign investments. Meanwhile, monetary policy instruments can be considered as key player in economic growth (GDP). Therefore, main objective of current study is to investigate the impact of Monetary Policy instruments on Economic Growth (GDP) in Sri Lanka. Through a sound literature review: interest rate, exchange rate and money supply considered as proxy of Monetary Policy instruments. Data were in secondary mode which collected from Central Bank publications for the period of 1985 to 2017 on annual basis. Regression analysis model have been used as main analysis tool with descriptive statistics and correlation analysis while it indicates 99.8% of variation on economic growth by the independent variables. The results of this study are highly in line with established empirical findings as the interest rate and exchange rate have been positively affected on economic growth in Sri Lanka with absence of significant relationship. As it reported money supply indicates a significant and positive impact on economic growth by concluding that money supply is the only one monetary policy instrument which significantly impact for the economic growth in Sri Lanka for last 33 years.
Healthcare Transition for Youth with Special Healthcare Needs

Because of medical advances in pediatric care, there are a growing number of individuals with childhood-onset chronic health conditions and disabilities who are aging out of pediatrics and are enter- ing the adult health care system. Today, 90% of children with conditions which were previously fatal in childhood are surviving into adulthood. Changes are needed in the organization, financing and delivery of care to assure this growing population of young adults has access to the services they require. Pediatric providers need to put in place transition practices recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the approaches for managing complex conditions articulated in the Chronic Care Model. This includes developing and implementing written transition plans for all adolescent patients, supporting youth's acquisition of self-management skills, linking youth to community-based supports and making use of transition-related training and resource materials that have been developed for adolescents and their families. Changes are also needed to ensure that young adults have adequate health insurance coverage and health care professionals are appropriately compensated for direct care services, health care transition planning, and care coor- dination. The JaxHATS Program is a primary care based approach for promoting the successful transition of youth with significant health care needs from pediatrics to adult care.
An Evaluation of Knowledge regarding Surgical Treatment of Obesity among Final Year Medical Students and Recent Graduate Physicians from King Abdulaziz University

Aim: To determine level of knowledge of medical students and recent graduates’ physicians regarding the possibility of surgical treatment for obesity. Background: Over the last few decades, the development of bariatric surgery has been observed. Which represents currently the only permanent and comprehensive method for the treatment of obese patients. However, knowledge about the possibility of surgical procedures among general practitioners is not sufficient. That might be due to lack of knowledge about bariatric surgery in university curriculum. Methods: We administered a cross-sectional survey among 298 medical students and recent graduates physicians from King Abdulaziz University. The survey was conducted to evaluate their knowledge regarding methods of surgical treatment of obesity, and to evaluate the amount of information on metabolic surgery provided to students during surgery courses. Result: Theoretical knowledge in the surgical treatment of obesity was possessed by 82% of medical students and 17.4% of interns. Results revealed a low level of knowledge on the possibility of applying metabolic surgery in treating morbid obesity. Most of participants expressed a need to improve their knowledge and favorably expanding the curriculum to include more information on the subject of metabolic surgery. Conclusion: The knowledge and awareness of weight loss surgery among medical student and recent graduates in KAU is inadequate, and need to be improved . Nawawi A, Arab F, Linjawi H, Fallatah H, Alkhaibari R, Jamal W MedEdPublish https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2017. 000012 Page | 2
Physico-chemical properties and distribution of nutrients in different type of calcareous vertisols

A survey work was conducted during summer season of 2013 in different type of calcareous soils from Raichur, Shahapur and Surpur (Sholapur) taluks and was investigated in order to provide detailed information on their physico-chemical properties and nutrients distribution. The clay content of slightly, moderately and strongly calcareous soils are relatively high (>40%). The average soil reaction from slightly, moderately and strongly calcareous soils 8.04, 8.47 and 8.43, respectively. These soils were slightly saline to saline and organic carbon for these soils remained low to medium. Average cation exchange capacity value was highest in strongly calcareous soils (67.85 c mol kg) followed by moderately (66.37 c mol kg) and slightly calcareous soils (56.18 c mol kg). The CaCO3 content variation in these soils may be due to parent material, native CaCO3 content in soil profile and arid and semiarid climate. The available nutrients like N, P, K, S and micronutrients are low in strongly calcareous soils followed by moderately and slightly calcareous soils. Available nutrients relatively high in case of slightly calcareous soils. Higher values of exchangeable Ca and Mg were recorded in strongly calcareous soils.
Comparative evaluation of various polishing systems on color stability of two nano composite resin restorative materials-an in vitro study

Aim: To compare the effect of four different polishing systems on color stability of two Nano composite resins immersed in four beverages (Coffee, Tea, Cola and Fanta). Methods: Eighty disc shaped specimens of 10 mm diameter and 2 mm thickness were prepared for each of the two Nano composite resins (Tetric N Ceram; Estelite alpha). The specimens of each material were divided into four groups (n=20) and were polished by four different systems (Optrapol; Astro brush; Diamond polishing paste; Shofu super-snap polishing discs). They were then immersed in four different beverages for 10 days at room temperature (Coffee, Tea, Cola and Fanta). The color of the specimens were evaluated under spectrophotometer before and after immersion. The mean color change (ΔE) values were statistically analyzed using three ways ANOVA. Results: The color change (ΔE) of the two Nano-composites ranged between 4.012 and 2.474 after 10 days of immersion in staining solutions. Statistically significant difference (p<0.05) was observed between the staining of two Nano-composites when compared with polishing systems and staining solutions. Conclusions: The two Nano-composites showed comparable color changes in all beverages. Estelite alpha showed greater resistance to staining as compared to Tetric N Ceram. Staining susceptibility was greater when polished by OptraPol followed by Astro brush, Diamond polishing paste and Shofu super-snap polishing discs. Correspondence to: Anitha Rao S, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Mamata Dental College, Giriprasad Nagar, Khammam 507002, Telangana, India; Tel: +91 9866957163; Fax: 08742 255545; E-mail: anidental@yahoo.com