Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Review on Effect of Establishment Methods on Growth, Yield and Yield Attributes of Rice and on Succeeding Crops after Rice

Rice is cultivated mainly by the transplanting in the puddled soil in the Asian region and in the Nepal. Puddling breakdown the soil structure and it requires more labor for transplanting, more water for field preparation and it emits more methane gas, which contributes global warming. To overcome these drawbacks, direct seeding of rice (DSR) is being popular among the farmers for the cultivation of rice. DSR had more water and labor use efficiencies and the maturity of the rice is also earlier as compared to transplanting methods. There is also increase in the intensification of crops, reduction in the global warming and the yield of succeeding crops after rice is also increased due to less soil destruction in the dry direct seeding of rice. The growth, yield and yield attributes of rice are also similar and better in DSR. So, DSR could be recommended for the cultivation of rice to increase labor and water use efficiencies, reduced global warming, increase the yield of succeeding crops and finally increase the profitability of the farmers. KeywordsClimate change, Direct seeded rice, Rice yield, Tillage, Water use efficiency, Yield attributes of rice
Co-constructing a learner-centered, democratic syllabus with teacher candidates: A poetic rendering of students’ meaning making experiences

In this arts-based research study, the creative concept of a co-constructed, learner-centered, and democratic syllabus (Marino, 1997; Matusov & Marjanovic-Shane, 2017; Ricci, 2012; Richmond, 2016; Shor, 1996) is creatively and critically examined through a poetic inquiry that focuses on its pedagogical significance in one of the Canadian teacher education programs. Specifically, the author aims to understand what this pedagogical significance means to her students-teacher candidates. The research question is: What does this syllabus-making experience mean to teacher candidates? The study reveals that the pedagogical significance of co-constructed syllabus is embodied in students’ changing self-perceptions as the active and critical knowledge creators, rather than the passive and immutable consumers of the provincial curriculum. Specifically, co-construction embodies diverse learning experiences, as the students struggle to understand why they have to co-construct their syllabus and what this pedagogy actually means to them. The study demonstrates that co-construction actively, enthusiastically, passionately, and energetically generates students’ engagement. Also, the co-constructed syllabus has an unstructured structure with multiple entry possibilities for learning.
Inequality of opportunity in France: The role of spatial segregation in the ethnic gap

I take advantage of the recent improvements in the Permanent Demographic Sample to provide new estimations of intergenerational mobility in France. I show that despite very comparable educational investments, second-generation immigrants from Maghreb experience lower absolute upward mobility in earnings than children of French natives. Results suggest that this discrepancy stems from differences in terms of access to employment. In addition to the well-documented hiring discrimination on the French labor market, I hypothesize spatial segregation to be linked with this phenomenon. I provide the first estimations of segregation in France that simultaneously (1) are not restricted to the first generation and (2) cover the whole French territory (3) using variations at a level as granular as that of the municipality. While the French literature had only relied on nationality and place of birth so far, I develop for that purpose an algorithm that can infer an individual’s origin based on her last name. Segregation indices are significantly associated with lower incomes for second-generation immigrants from Maghreb, and with a higher intergenerational persistence irrespective of individuals’ origin, but to a greater extent for children of immigrants from Maghreb.
Prevention of hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), especially hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related, remains a major cause of cancerrelated mortality worldwide. Unless there is early detection with curative treatment, the 5-year survival rate of advanced HCC is less than 15%. The preventive strategies for HBV-related HCC are thus urgently needed to reduce the global burden of this disastrous cancer. Primary prevention involves the avoidance of viral infection through hepatitis B vaccination and interruption of viral transmission from patients with chronic HBV infection. Universal neonatal hepatitis B vaccination program has successfully reduced the prevalence of HBV carriage rate as well as HCC incidence in vaccinated cohorts. However, HBV elimination is still difficult to achieve. Regarding secondary prevention, long-term treatment with nucleos(t)ide analogues has been proven to reduce the risk of HBV-related HCC. Individual risk stratification and a periodic HCC surveillance in these patients could facilitate early HCC diagnosis. Finally, tertiary prevention can also be achieved by life-long treatment with NAs to reduce the risk of HCC recurrence after curative treatment of primary HCC. Challenges ahead include the fact that HBV is not yet curable by current antiviral agents. Combination therapy with direct anti-HBV agents and host-targeting immunomodulatory agents is under active development. In addition, HCC risk cannot be eliminated even in patients with HBsAg seroclearance or functional cure. Therefore, HCC surveillance is strongly recommended for every patient with chronic HBV infection.
TESTING THE WEAK-FORM MARKET EFFICIENCY: THE CASE OF AMMAN STOCK EXCHANGE

The study aims to empirically investigate the weak-form market efficiency of Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) as an emerging financial market in the Middle East region. The time series methodology is thoroughly employed to test whether past indices returns can predict future returns. Annual data over the 1980-2015 of the seven indices of ASE were used. The Augmented Dickey-Fuller test (ADF), serial correlation, and Phllip-Perron (P-P) as parametric tests were applied. The results suggest that the ASE is inefficient at the weak-form level as the indices exhibited autocorrelation and stationary behaviour. Besides, result of the regression model of stock indices doesn’t support the random walk model. Keywords— Efficient market hypothesis, weak-form market efficiency, random walk model, serial correlation, runs test, Augmented Ducky Fuller (ADF) test, Amman Stock Exchange (ASE).
Impact of the Application of Landfill Leachate on the Germination of Senna macranthera in Different Substrates

Landfill leachate is a potential environmental pollutant.Physicochemical analyses allow identifying its elements while the useof ecotoxicological tests aims to understand the relation with theenvironment. The germination assay of Senna macranthera in different substrates (filter paper, commercial-SCM, conventional-SCV andorganic-SOR) was performed with different doses of leachate. Theobjective was to identify the potential impact of leachate by determining the concentration able to cause inhibition in 50% of theseeds (LC50) and the values of the no observable effect concentration (NOEC) and the lowest observed effect concentration (LOEC). The LC50 and LOEC occurred in the treatments with 6.25 while NOEC was with3.125%. The test in substrates, It was not possible to identify the LC50 in the SCM. For the SCV was with 66 and in SOR with 25%. The NOEC and LOEC for SCM and SCV were 25 and 50% and in SOR with 50 and 100%.
Removal of Phenol and o-Cresol by Adsorption onto Activated Carbon

A commercial activated carbon was utilized for the adsorptive removal of phenol and o-cresol from dilute aqueous solutions. Batch mode adsorption studies were performed by varying parameters such as concentration of phenol solution, time, pH and temperature. The well known Freundlich, Langmuir and Redlich-Peterson isotherm equations were applied for the equilibrium adsorption data and the various isotherm parameters were evaluated. The Langmuir monolayer adsorption capacities were found to be 0.7877 and 0.5936 mmole/g, respectively, for phenol and o-cresol. Kinetic studies performed indicate that the sorption processes can be better represented by the pseudo-second order kinetics. The processes were found to be endothermic and the thermodynamic parameters were evaluated. Desorption studies performed indicate that the sorbed phenol molecules can be desorbed with dil. HCl.
The Inhibitory Effect of Spices and Flavonoid Compounds on Formation of 2-amino-1-methyl-6-Phenylimidazo [4,5-b] Pyridine (PhIP) in a Model System

Heterocyclic amines (HCAs) are a class of mutagenic and carcinogenic compounds generated when muscle foods are cooked at high temperatures. Exposure to HCAs has been linked to human cancers, among them colon, prostate, breast, and pancreatic cancers. 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo [4,5-b] pyridine (PhIP) is a common, potentially harmful HCA that forms via the Maillard reaction. The health consequences of consuming HCAs have caused the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) to list PhIP as a “possible human carcinogen. ” Spices and flavonoid compounds have received considerable attention for their beneficial effect against HCA formation in our daily foods. In this study, a model system with 0.011 mmol glucose, 0.022 mmol creatinine, and 0.022 mmol phenylalanine in 90:10 diethylene glycol/water (v/v) was heat-treated at 180°C for 1 hour to test the formation of PhIP. Spices such as black pepper oil, piperine, D-limonene, P-cymene, and capsaicin and flavonoid compounds such as quercetin, apigenin, genistin, phlorizin, and catechin were added individually to the model system at three concentrations (125, 625, and 1250 ppm) to test their effect on PhIP formation. The PhIP contents were assessed using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). The results indicate that four out of five components of spices: black pepper oil, piperine, D-limonene, and capsaicin significantly (p < 0.05) reduced PhIP formation, while P-cymene had no significant effect on PhIP formation. All flavonoid compounds also had a significant (p < 0.05) effect on PhIP formation. These findings provide valuable information about spices and flavonoid compounds as protective agents against HCA formation.
Nutritional Status of the Elderly Population Having Dental Problem in the Selected Community

Background: Good nutrition is the foundation for a healthy life. Malnutrition is associated with higher rates of morbidity and mortality as well as increased health care expenditures, and prolonged hospital stays. Elderly People are uniquely susceptible to malnutrition due to the association of aging with various factors that influence nutritional status. Dental Problems in elderly can cause difficulty with chewing food and swallowing, leading to a decrease in nutrient intake affecting nutritional status. Thus, the objective of the study was to assess the nutritional status of the elderly population having a dental problem in Harisiddhi, Lalitpur, Nepal Methodology: A community-based cross-sectional descriptive study was undertaken at, Harisiddhi, Lalitpur with one hundred fifty (N=150) elderly people by using a systematic random sampling method. The MiniNutritional Assessment – Short Form tool was utilized for interviewing elderly people. Results: The main findings of this study revealed that 60% of the elderly people having dental problems were at risk of malnutrition, only 22% had normal nutritional status and 18% of the respondents were malnourished. The average Body Mass Index of elderly people was 27.1 kg/m. There was a significant association between age, educational status, types of family, income source, type of dental problem, and nutritional status of the respondents. Conclusions: More than half of the elderly people having dental problem are at risk of malnutrition and only a few have normal nutritional status so nutritional counselling and dental health program should be conducted among the elderly people focusing on the importance of balanced diet, activity and dental health for maintaining the nutritional status within their motivation and energy level.
Syntactic Aspects Of Ekegusii Subject And Object Markers

Buell (2005) defines subject markers and object markers as terms used in Bantu tradition to denote verbal prefixes in the verbal word which agree with subject and object NPs respectively. The verbal word in EkeGusii, as in other Bantu languages, has a structure which accommodates affixation of a variety of morphemes both to the left of the root (prefixes) and to the right of the root (suffixes) before the final vowel (Sozinho & Mbiavanga, 2008; Iorio, 2015; Sikuku, 2013; Ondondo, 2015). The subject and object markers are some of these morphemes accommodated on the verbal word. This paper analyses the syntactic properties and syntactic operations that licence the subject and object markers in EkeGusii. It is hoped that the paper will be of help in the understanding of the verbal word in this language. The common syntactic properties of SM are: it is obligatory, the SM can co-occur with the subject NP with which they corefer, the SM occupies the first position in the verbal template in positive statements and it agrees with the noun class prefix to which that noun belongs. The OM in EkeGusii is optional, it does not co-occur with the lexical object DP unless when left dislocated, the OM occupies a specific slot in the verbal template, that is, it comes after SM and tense marker and before the verbal root and the final vowel. Also the OM Abstract: The verbal complex in Bantu languages is an important unit in the syntactic structure. The verbal word in Bantu, in particular, EkeGusii, has a structure which accommodates affixation of a variety of morphemes as prefixes and suffixes before the final vowel (Bresnan & Mchombo, 1987; Sozinho & Mbiavanga, 2008; Iorio, 2015; Sikuku, 2013; Ondondo, 2015 among others). Notable among these are the Subject Marker (SM) and the Object Marker (OM). The SM and OM represent their corresponding subject and object Determiner Phrases (DPs) respectively. The aim of this paper is to describe the syntactic operations that licence the occurrence of these markers in the EkeGusii verb. There have been attempts in the analysis of EkeGusii verb (Basweti et. al., 2015; Ogechi, 2002, 2006; Elwell, 2008; Ongarora, 2008 among others). However, none has attempted an analysis of syntactic aspects of subject and object markers in this language. This paper seeks to focus on the syntactic properties and operations that determine the occurrence of these markers on the EkeGusii verb with a view to describing their syntactic aspects. The paper shows that the SM and OM attach to the verb through incorporation. Additionally, the SM moves to the verb through lowering operation while the OM gets to the verb through a raising operation.
Uncovering Semantic Structures within Folk Song Lyrics

In this paper, we focus on computational methods for natural language processing (NLP) and evaluate some possibilities that NLP methods offer to folkloristics. Due to inherent dialectical diversity and strong intertextuality, folkloristic materials have generally proven to be very challenging for NLP. Our goal was therefore to evaluate different NLP methods and study the semantics generated by respective approaches and their practical implica-tions. Three experiments analyzing a collection of Slo-venian folk narrative poems are presented and results discussed.
Turnaround Strategy: Evidence from Indonesian Manufacturing Firms during Asian Financial Crisis in 1997-1998

In the aftermath of the Asian fianancial crisis of 1997-1998, many companies in Indonesia got into trouble and had to be turned around or face liquidation. This study attempts to determine what strategies were used to turn around Indonesian firms and how effective their strategies had been. From a survey of 101 firms, it was found that the most used strategies were restructuring strategies, cutback strategies and management strategies. But in terms of effectiveness only cutback and restructuring strategies were positively related to firm performance. Keyword: turnaround strategies; firm performance; asian crisis; organizational decline, manufacturing firms
ATTENTION BASED 3-D CONVOLUTION NEURAL NETWORK FOR SPEECH EMOTION RECOGNITION

Speech Emotion Recognition is important in many ﬁelds like human-machine interaction and health care. Recently, various deep neural networks are introduced to this domain and achieved great performance. Yet SER remains a difﬁcult task due to several obstacles, e.g. the sparsity of emotion-relevant frames in a long speech utterance, the difﬁculties of bettering extracted acoustic feature quality, and the long-dependencies problem in RNN models. In this paper, we proposed a 3-D Convolutional Neural Network with attention mechanism, which helps to generate higher quality spectrogram features and mitigate the sparsity issue. The experimental results on the popular dataset IEMOCAP show the proposed approach outperforms the baseline models.
Validation of the Montgomery-Åsberg depression rating scale in depressed patients in Serbia

Accepted papers are articles in press that have gone through due peer review process and have been accepted for publication by the Editorial Board of the Serbian Archives of Medicine. They have not yet been copy-edited and/or formatted in the publication house style, and the text may be changed before the final publication. Although accepted papers do not yet have all the accompanying bibliographic details available, they can already be cited using the year of online publication and the DOI, as follows: the author’s last name and initial of the first name, article title, journal title, online first publication month and year, and the DOI; e.g.: Petrović P, Jovanović J. The title of the article. Srp Arh Celok Lek. Online First, February 2017. When the final article is assigned to volumes/issues of the journal, the Article in Press version will be removed and the final version will appear in the associated published volumes/issues of the journal. The date the article was made available online first will be carried over.
Infrared spectroscopy of chemically doped solid parahydrogen

This review article presents an overview of recent infrared spectroscopic studies of chemical species trapped in solid parahydrogen at liquid helium temperatures. An overriding theme that emerges from this work is that, even at liquid helium temperatures, chemically doped solid parahydrogen is dynamic with a variety of quantum mechanical and energy transfer processes that occur, such as orthohydrogen quantum diffusion, hydrogen nuclear spin conversion, and, in radical doped parahydrogen solids, chemical reactions can occur. To illustrate these dynamical phenomena we examine (1) clustering of orthohydrogen to dopant molecules, (2) solid parahydrogen infrared absorptions induced or perturbed by the presence of the dopant, and (3) chemical reactions initiated by infrared absorptions of the parahydrogen solid. Contents PAGE 1. Introduction 470 2. Experimental method 472 3. Weakly bound clusters in solid pH2 473 3.1. Forming weakly bound clusters 473 3.2. Intracluster nuclear spin conversion 479 4. Dopant-induced IR activity 482 4.1. Rg atom-induced Q1(0) vibron band 483 4.2. Rg atom-perturbed S1(0) transitions 484 5. Infrared-induced chemical reactions 486 6. Concluding remarks 494 Acknowledgments 494 References 494
Effect of pre-anthesis water-stress on pollen grains and ovules at the middle and top of spike in a wheat line sensitive to apical sterility

This study was conducted to determine the contribution of pollen and ovule sterility on the floret sterility at the apex of spikes in a sensitive variety when the plants are encountered to waterstress at the meiotic stage. The differences between control and water-stress treatments were highly significant (P<0.001) for seed set, pollen viability and pollen fertility indicating that water-stress had severely influenced the fertility of florets at the apex of spike. The results obtained from reciprocal crosses between plants imposed to water-stress and well-watered plants demonstrated that ovule development was negatively affected by water-stress but less severely than anther and pollen development. Both the fertility and viability of pollen grains at the apex of spikes were reduced due to water-stress to a greater extent that those in the middle. Pollen fertility was affected more seriously than pollen viability.
5G for V2X Communications

Connected and fully automated vehicles are expected to revolutionize transportation systems of the future on a global scale, signiﬁcantly improving road safety and traﬃc eﬃciency, and fostering investments in the automotive market. This new landscape mandates a robust, ﬂexible and business agile communication, networking and computing technology foundation, in which ﬁfth generation (5G) systems and enablers will take the lion’s share. By leveraging new-designed eﬃcient air interfaces, a wide range of allocated frequencies, advanced transceivers, multiple radio access technologies, as well as cutting-edge network softwarization principles, 5G intends to guarantee ultra-low latency, ultra-high reliability, and high-data rate vehicle-to-everything (V2X) connectivity. This chapter will describe the status quo of V2X communications, by analyzing the main application requirements and the restless activities engaging the R&D community towards 5G-enabled V2X. Research challenges and opportunities, along with perspectives about system design and enablers for 5G-V2X communications will also be part of this chapter.
Fractal features of soil texture and physical attributes in indian dark earth under different uses in Western Amazon

Studying particle size distribution is important to understand soil structure and formation processes. This research aimed to assess the fractal dimension of soil texture in Indian Dark Earth (IDE) areas in southern Amazonas state under different land uses, as follows: two areas in the municipality of Apuí, one growing cocoa and the other coffee; a grassland area in the municipality of Manicoré; and a forest area in the municipality of Novo Aripuanã. A sampling grid containing 88 collection points (intersecting points on the grid) was established in each area, measuring 80 x 42 m for the cocoa and coffee-growing sites, and 80 x 56 m and 60 x 42 m for the grassland and forest areas, respectively. Soil samples were collected in soil core and as clumps at a depth of 0.0-0.20m to determine the structural physical properties and texture of the soil. The following physical attributes were assessed: texture (PSD), bulk density (BD), macroporosity (Macro), microporosity (Micro), total porosity (TP) and aggregate stability (GMD and WMD). The fractal dimension (D) of the soil texture was determined, followed by analysis of variance and comparison of the means using Tukey’s test (p≤0.05). Pearson’s correlation was applied to assess the correlation between variables. There was a significant difference between the IDEs studied, with a higher D value in the cocoa-growing area in relation to the other sites. Additionally, the larger the clay fraction, the higher the D value. Fractal dimension (D) showed a positive correlation with sand, clay, BD, Macro, GMD and WMD, and a negative correlation with silt, micro, TP. Based on the D values obtained, the ADE cultivated with cocoa showed superior quality in relation to the other areas studied.