Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of foliar application of chemicals on yield of pomegranate cv. Bhagwa

An investigation on “Effect of foliar application of chemicals on yield and quality of pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) cv. Bhagwa. ” was undertaken with objective, To enhance the yield and quality of pomegranate by foliar application of various chemicals. The field study was carried out on the field of Horticulture (pomology) VNMKV, Parbhani. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with Ten treatments viz., T1 NAA (40 ppm) + Boron (0.3%), T2 NAA (40 ppm) + CaCl2 (1.5%), T3 NAA (40 ppm) + ZnSO4 (0.2%), T4 GA3 (75 ppm) + Boron (0.3%), T5 GA3 (75 ppm) + CaCl2(1.5%), T6 GA3 (75 ppm) + ZnSO4 (0.2%), T7 2,4-D (20 ppm) + Boron (0.3%), T8 2,4-D (20 ppm) + CaCl2 (1.5%),T9 2,4-D (20 ppm) + ZnSO4 (0.2%), T10 control with three replications. Observations on yield attributes of individual treatments were recorded. The results obtained for yield parameters and quality parameters had significant and non-significant influence due to foliar application of various chemicals in given treatments. Among these treatments fruit attributes such as length of fruit (8.71 cm), diameter of fruit (9.40 cm), and volume of fruit (334.40 ml), were found maximum in treatment T4 i.e. spraying of GA3 (75 ppm) + Boron (0.3%) which were respectively 14.16 per cent, 18.98 per cent, 47.80 per cent more as compared to control. Aril attributes such as number of aril in 100 g (416.00), aril percentage (76.74%), aril to rind ratio (2.40) and number of aril per fruit (864.00). The rind attributes i.e. rind thickness and rind percentage was increase treatment T10 i.e. control (1.84 mm), (38.15%) respectively. Given treatments also enhanced the yield attributes i.e. average weight (310.11 g), number of fruit per plant (111.25), weight of fruit per plant (34.49 kg) and yield mt/ha (19.14 mt/ha) in the treatment T4 i.e. spraying of GA3 (75 ppm) + Boron (0.3%) which were respectively 28.03 per cent, 63.60 per cent, 109.53 per cent and 109.40 per cent more as compared to control. Close analysis of the present investigation revealed that the foliar application of alone or in combination with plant growth regulators and chemicals were able to increase the yield and quality characters of pomegranate cv. Bhagwa. Among the ten different treatments of sprays with superior treatment T4 i.e. spraying of GA3 (75 ppm) + Boron (0.3%) was found to be more effective in increasing the yield attributing characters respectively.
New Modified Semantic Similarity Measure based on Information Content Approach

In recent years, the semantic similarity measure has got a great concern especially in NLP, information retrieval and cognitive science. Several approaches have been introduced for computing the semantic similarity score among concepts. This paper presents a modified semantic similarity measure of LIN measure. The proposed method focuses on solving the low similarity score between synonyms, as well as avoiding zero similarity score when the concept has no occurrence in corpus. The proposed measure computes the similarity score using the parents of the compared concepts and least common subsumer. The experiments show that the proposed measure has achieved high correlation against LIN measure on the miller and Charles benchmark dataset, also the MSE value of the proposed measure was 0.263758, on the other hand; the MSE of LIN measure on the same dataset was 0.344196.
79-amino-acid protein synthesized in the liver and in the intestine [6], inhibits the hydrolysis of triglyceride (TG)-rich particles by lipoprotein lipase and causes delayed clearance of TG-rich

ISSN 2168-8761 print/ISSN 2168-877X online ~ 143 ~ http://www.researchpub. org/journal/jbpr/jbpr.html Abstract: Essential hypertension is thought to be a polygenic and multifactorial disease. Apolipoprotein CIII (Apo CIII) gene has been identified as a candidate region for hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis. The current study tested the hypothesis that Apo CIII 3238 C/G gene polymorphism may affect oxidized Low Density Lipoprotein (oxLDL) level and increase the susceptibility to essential hypertension. A total of 120 hypertensive patients and 130 aged and sex matched controls were selected from North Sinai area. All subjects are Egyptians and had the same ethnicity. Genotyping of the Apo CIII 3238C/G was performed by polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism. Lipid profile and serum oxLDL were determined. The minor G allele of Apo CIII 3238C/G gene polymorphism was more frequent in hypertensive patients than in the controls (odds ratio [OR] = 2.09, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.16-3.78, p = 0.013). The CG genotype carriers were associated with higher levels of triglycerides and oxLDL in patients and control subjects. No significant difference was observed in other lipid parameters. However, the HDL levels were higher in CG genotype carriers compared to carriers of CC genotype. The results of the present study show that the Apo CIII 3238C/G single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) is associated with susceptibility to essential hypertension and provide the first evidence that apo CIII 3238C/G affecting serum oxLDL. Therefore, this study bridges genetic susceptibility to essential hypertension with atherogenecity and the potential long-term risk of cardiovascular diseases. __________________________________________ a Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia41622, Egypt b Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical industries, Sinai University, North Sinai45511, Egypt c Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Suez Canal University, Ismailia41622, Egypt *Corresponding author. E-mail: dinawahadan@yahoo.com; Fax: +20 643230741 (Received April 4, 2013; Revised April 6, 2013; Accepted April 8, 2013; Published online April 12, 2013)
Corporate Governance Quality and Dividend Policy. J. Appl. Bus. Fin. Res.1 (1): 57-69.;

Agency theory is one of the theories that has been tested widely in the different articles and gained supportive observations. With regard to agency theory, dividend distribution policy is determined by the agency costs resulted from the difference between ownership and control. Because of the agency costs managers may not ever adopt dividend policy that maximizes stockholder’s value. Instead, they probably use the type of the dividend policy which maximizes their private benefits. It is argued that dividend payouts reduce agency conflicts by the reduction of amount of free cash flow that could be used for manager’s private benefits rather than maximizing stockholder’s wealth. Hence the present study goes to examine the effect of corporate governance quality dividend policy to solve agency costs problems. Our article acts as a descriptive-forth event research and is based on the combined data analysis. Eighty-one Tehran stock exchange listed companies between 2006 and 2010 have been selected as the sample of the research. Furthermore, corporate governance quality calculated according to the four controlling aspects of Board of Directors, ownership structure, financial information transparency which each contains measurable indexes. The Findings indicated that there is significant and positive relationship between dividend policy and Audit Quality, Timely Annual General Assembly, and Financial Information Transparency. On the other hand, Negative relationship between dividend policy and the board of director’s proficiency is confirmed that corroborate substitution hypothesis of dividend policy. Also, the results of this study indicated significant and positive relationship between dividend policy and control variables such as cash dividends of the previous year, free cash flow, corporate profitability, and firm size in all models.
MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF RRC-BASED SIGNALING STORMS IN 3G NETWORKS

- Mobile networks are vulnerable to signaling attacks and storms that are caused by traffic patterns that overload the control plane, and differ from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the Internet since they directly attack the control plane, and also reserve wireless bandwidth without actually using it. Such attacks can result from malware and mobile botnets, as well as from poorly designed applications, and can cause service outages in 3G and 4G networks which have been experienced by mobile operators. Since the radio resource control (RRC) protocol in 3G and 4G networks is particularly susceptible to such attacks, we analyze their effect with a mathematical model that helps to predict the congestion that is caused by an attack. A detailed simulation model of a mobile network is used to better understand the temporal dynamics of user behavior and signaling in the network and to show how RRC based signaling attacks and storms cause signiﬁcant problems in the control plane and the user plane of the network. Our analysis also serves to identify how storms can be detected, and to propose how system parameters can be chosen to mitigate their effect.
Automatic Detection and Recognition of Text in Traffic Sign Boards based on Word Recognizer

While driving one passes so many text based-traffic signs that sometimes even important information such as speed limits or no overtaking traffic signs can get lost. The driver can also be sometimes distracted by traffic and does not notice some of the text based traffic signs. The automatic text detection and recognition of traffic sign boards eliminates this issue by automatically detecting and recognizing the text in traffic signs boards. The text-based traffic sign boards should be detected by making use of HSV color thresholding. RANSAC algorithm and homography are used to vertically align the text characters and reduce distortion. This is followed by the recognition phase, which interprets the text in the detected traffic boards. Each letter of the text in the traffic sign board is identified and fed into the Optical character recognition (OCR) for interpretation. The recognition phase is further revised using a dictionary of words. Text recognition is also applied on images with noise. Vectorization is performed so that computational time can be reduced.
A Clinical Study on 100 Cases of Herpes Zoster in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Introduction: Herpes zoster is caused by varicella zoster virus (VZV), occurs as a result of reactivation of the dormant virus in sensory root ganglia. Most often VZV reactivates in the settings of relative immunologic compromise, as occurs with aging, or following disease such as HIV or various therapies, such as steroids, cancer chemotherapy, organ transplantation, and irradiation. Aim of the Study: The study of herpes zoster was undertaken to find out the age and sex incidence, prevalence of prodromal symptoms, provocative factors, pattern of dermatomal involvement, prevalence of constitutional symptoms, association with HIV, other cutaneous diseases and systemic diseases, duration of time taken for resolution of lesions, and the prevalence of complications. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted on 100 cases of herpes zoster. Patient’s age, sex, occupation, and address were noted. A detailed history regarding the prodromal symptoms, skin lesions, nature of pain, duration of illness at the time of presentation, provocative factors, and history of chicken pox were recorded. Morphology of skin lesions, the side of involvement, cutaneous dissemination, mucosal lesions, and motor palsy associated with zoster were recorded. Associated cutaneous diseases, systemic diseases, and HIV infection were noted. The time taken for complete resolution of lesions and the complications were also noted. Observation and Results: Out of 100 cases, 72 were males and 28 were females and the sex ratio was 2.5:1. Age wise distribution showed that 73 cases were below the age of 50 and 27 were above the age of 50 years. Prodromal symptoms were present in 85% and absent in 15% cases. Constitutional symptoms were present in 77% and 23% cases were not had any constitutional symptoms. Thoracic dermatome was the most common dermatome involved (60%) followed by cranial nerve zoster 14%, lumbar 13%, cervical 12%, and sacral dermatome 1% case. Most cases (85%) showed complete resolution of lesions between 10 and 21 days (2–3 weeks). Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) was the most common complication observed in herpes zoster patients. Conclusion: More than two-third (73%) of cases of zoster occurred in individuals below the age of 50 years. The prevalence of zoster was more in the younger age group when compared to elderly people. Male preponderance was found with the sex ratio of 2.5:1. Thoracic dermatome was the most common segment involved, and sacral was the least common dermatome affected. HIV infection was the most common provocative factor in 16% of total cases. The most common systemic diseases noted with zoster were diabetes mellitus and hypertension. Duration of time taken for resolution or healing of the lesions ranged from 2 to 4 weeks. PHN was the most common complication observed in our cases. The other complications noted were secondary bacterial infection, scarring, and motor palsy (facial palsy).
A study on Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is an idiopathic and reversible form of dilated cardiomyopathy which is of unknown aetiology with absence of determinable cause for cardiac failure. The disease is relatively uncommon with an estimated rate of 1 in 3,000-4,000 deliveries and its incidence is getting increased nowadays due to many reasons. The diagnosis of this entity is often difficult and it requires a high degree of clinical suspicion since majority of the cases in puerperium with cardiac failure (acute LVF or cardiac arrhythmias) are often the cause for maternal mortality. Early diagnosis facilitates immediate intervention, which will prevent maternal morbidity, mortality and also helps to team up with an internist or cardiologist to provide effective treatment to the patient. In this regard the present study was conducted at Hanamkonda, Warangal with the aim to review the maternal complications influencing mortality in peripartum cardiomyopathy. It is suggested that a protocol has to be evolved for early diagnosis, effective management and for better maternal and perinatal outcome.
The Determinants of Governance: A Global Analysis

The scope of the paper is to explore the underlying determinants of governance quality at the global level. The study suggests that cross-country variation in governance is mainly attributed to differences not only in countries’ level of economic development but to the range of political freedom and level of social development. More specifically, the impact of economic development is stronger for the control of corruption, the rule of law and regulatory quality as far as the examined governance dimensions are concerned. Political development is strongly related to political stability and absence of violence as well as voice and accountability. A very interesting finding is the high correlation of social development, as depicted by the relevant human development index, with the level of government effectiveness. Therefore, strengthening and maintaining governance is achieved only through the adoption and effective implementation of the appropriate long-run policies. In a similar vein, concrete policy guidelines lie at the core of the good governance agenda. The associated reforms target a broad list of comprehensive governance objectives in order to achieve government effectiveness, anti-corruption safeguards, high standards of legitimacy and accountability, among other attributes of governance systems.
Effect of Surfactant and Oil Type on Size Droplets of Betacarotene-Bearing Nanoemulsions

The use of nano carriers for hydrophobic nutriciticals such as carotenoieds, have multiple benefits e.g. protection of the degradation of active agent against oxidation, heat, light, heavy metals and enzymes. Also during the course of the digestive system, nano carries offer higher bioavailability and avoid the bad taste and color of the food (Lin et al., 2009; Sagalowicz and Leser, 2010). Due to the low solubility of beta carotene in water generally its ability to confine to the nano lipid structures is high, thus its application into colloidal delivery systems that can help to spread it into aqueous-based beverage (De Vost et al., 2010; Saberi et al., 2013). Nanoemulsions are among the most important nano carrier systems, which are clear systems with droplet size in the range of 20 200 nm (Fathi et al., 2012). They are ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 4 Number 9 (2015) pp. 146-155 http://www.ijcmas. com
Effect of Cigarette Smoking on Serum Lipid Profile in Male Population of Udaipur

Cigarette smoking is associated with adverse effects on lipid profile and homocysteine thus increasing risk for atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Smoking is a prominent risk factor for coronary artery disease, atherosclerosis and peripheral vascular disorders. This study was undertaken to evaluate serum lipid profile in chronic smokers and to compare it with healthy non-smokers, considered as controls. Serum lipid profile was measured in 300 male subjects. Out of which 150 were smokers and 150 non-smokers (controls) with an age range of 50 to 60 years. Only chronic smokers who were smoking for more than 20 years were included in the study. It was revealed that mean serum Total Cholesterol (268.88 ± 29.23 mg/dl), Triglyceride(192.12 ± 56.42 mg/dl), Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (189.76 ± 15.74 mg/dl), Very Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (38.42 ± 11.28 mg/dl) were significantly higher in chronic smokers as compared to non-smokers with mean serum Total Cholesterol (182.56 ± 21.33 mg/dl), Triglyceride(115.71 ± 32.11mg/dl), Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol(107.68 ± 9.55 mg/ dl), Very Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol(23.14 ± 6.42 mg/dl). On the other hand value of mean serum High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol was lower in chronic smokers (40.7 ± 2.21 mg/dl) than in non-smokers (51.74 ± 5.36 mg/dl). Thus this study concludes that cigarette smoking produced adverse effects on lipid profile, leading to increase cardiovascular disease risk among smokers.
The Association between IL-1 Receptor Antagonist Intron 2 Gene Polymorphisms and Unexplained Recurrent Pregnancy Loss in an Iranian Azari Turkish Population

Introduction: Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) is a heterogeneous condition consisting of three or more consecutive abortions before the 20 weeks of gestation. Cytokines secreted by Th1 cells including IL-1, TNFα and IFNγ, have been described as etiologic factors in RPL. Interleukin 1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RN) is an important anti-inflammatory molecule, which play vital roles in pregnancy. To our knowledge, this was the first report from Iran. Genotypes and allele distributions for IL-1RN variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) in 100 women with unexplained RPL were compared to those of 100 age and ethnically matched healthy fertile controls with at least two successful pregnancies and no history of pregnancy loss. Genomic DNA was extracted from the whole blood and analyzed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). Results: No significant association was indicated between these polymorphisms and RPL among Iranian Azeri Turkish women (all P>0.05). IL-1RN VNTR polymorphisms may not be genetic determinant for RPL. Conclusion: It is essential to repeat studies and design a more extensive research with a higher number of subjects from different ethnic origins.
New York Science Journal 2012;5:(10)

The ability of Pleurotus tuber-regium and indigenous microorganisms isolated from the contaminated soil to remediate spent cutting fluids contaminated soil were investigated for 2months. The ability of these organisms to degrade the total petroleum hydrocarbon present in the cutting fluids, lignin content in the rice straw, their enzyme activity as well as their ability to accumulate heavy metals present in the contaminated soil were monitored. In each of the soil samples (unsterilized cutting fluids contaminated soil (US) and unsterilized cutting fluids contaminated soil inoculated with P. tuber-regium (USP)), significant increase (P≤ 0.05) in the nutrient content of the soil was observed; USP having higher nutrient content. The heavy metal contents of the two soil samples decreased showing that bioaccumulation of the heavy metals had occurred. The indigenous microbes alone in US accumulated heavy metals better than the indigenous microbes with P. tuber-regium in USP. The highest total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) loss (36.23%) was recorded at 10% cutting fluids concentration in USP compared to US which had 19.61%. The unsterilized contaminated soil inoculated with P. tuber-regium recorded the highest lignin degradation, also the polyphenol oxidase and peroxidase activity of the organisms in all the samples showed gradual increase. The microorganisms isolated from the unsterilized soil samples were Bacillus licheniformis, B. cereus, Bacillus sp, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas sp, Corynebacterium sp, Neisseria sp, Trichoderma harzanium, Aspergillus niger, A. flavus, A. glaucus, Mucor sp and Rhizopus sp. [Omasan E. Ejoh, Clementina O. Adenipekun and Ogunjobi A. Adeniyi. Effect of Pleurotus tuber-regium Singer and microorganisms on degradation of soil contaminated with spent cutting fluids. N Y Sci J 2012;5(10):121128] (ISSN: 1554-0200). http://www.sciencepub. net/newyork. 19
Antifungal and Antioxidant Activities of Methanol Extract of Chitin, Chitosan and Shrimp Shell Waste

The present investigation aimed to evaluate chitosan, shrimp shell waste and chitin against the fungus activity. Shrimp shell methanolic extract showed stronger inhibitory effects than chitin. Thus, the inhibition zone reached (19.5 mm) for Asprigellus fumigatus and reached (16.5 mm) against both A.flavus and A.niger, while the chitosan extract showed the lowest effectiveness. The natural treatments for Candida albicants were not effective. In contrast, Nesoral as chemical product recorded the maximum inhibitory activity for all tested fungi. The antioxidant properties were observed through total polyphenolic compound. The results indicated that chitin, chitosan and shrimp shell exhibited the highest antioxidant properties. The present finding revealed that the tested Chitin, Chitosan and Shrimp shell waste are promised materials from natural sources as antifungal agents.
A Study Regarding Awareness among the University Students about the Disease Beta Thalassemia

Background: Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder in which the body is unable to make adequate haemoglobin. Haemoglobin is present in the red cells. Normally red cells survive for 120 days but in Thalassemia red cell survival is reduced. Most children with thalassaemia are born in low-income countries. Worldwide, transfusion is available for a small fraction of those who need it, and most transfused patients will die from iron overload unless an available and potentially inexpensive oral iron chelator is licensed more widely. Methods: A Cross sectional study was conducted among the university students from January 2011 to May 2011. Simple random sampling was done. There are 66 departments in Panjab University, Chandigarh, 14 and 25 sector campuses. From each department of the University residential campuses 6 students were selected randomly. Hence making 400 students approximately from 66 departments. Results: Responses for knowledge about anemia, thalassemia, beta thalassemia among study subjects in preliminary questionnaire survey had shown that in the pre information questionnaire around 73.6% of the students enrolled in the study had no knowledge about anemia, thalassemia, beta thalassemia and its types and significance. Conclusion: It can be concluded that awareness among sciences students were more (28.6%) about the disease than the students of other faculties of study.