Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance of soybean (Glycine max)
genotypes based on yield and yield-related traits

The success of breeding programme relies on the variability present in the breeding material. Selection is also effective when there is significant amount of genetic variability among the individuals in a population. The study aimed at assessing genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance among yield and yield components of soybean genotypes. Eighty-two genotypes maintained at the Agricultural Research Council-Grain Crops were planted in an alpha lattice design, replicated twice in Potchefstroom and Brits in South Africa in 2017/18 growing season. Five plants per genotype were selected and yield and yield related traits were measured. Data were analysed through analysis of variance and genetic parameters were estimated. The results showed highly significant differences among the genotypes based on days to flowering, branch number per plant, hundred seed weight, pod weight per plant, pod length, seed number per plant, seed number per pod and grain yield. Heritability of yield and yield components were ranged from 5.9% to 100%. The most heritable traits were hundred seed weight (100 %), days to flowering (64.13 %) and seed number per pod (67.37%). The genotypic variance ranged from 0.3% to 33% while the phenotypic variation ranged from 1.5% to 44%. The phenotypic and genotypic coefficient of variations was high for grain yield, medium for days to flowering and lowest for hundred seed weight. The phenotypic coefficient of variations (PCV) was higher than genotypic coefficient of variation (GCV) for all characters indicating the influence of environmental factors. The expected genetic advance was high for most of the traits, medium for seed number per pod and hundred seed weight and low for pod number per plant. The expected genetic advance as percent of mean was variable and high for all traits. There was vast variation observed among the soybean genotypes evaluated based on the yield and yield related traits
Prevalence of foodborne bacteria isolated from fresh raw ulam

Although vegetables are considered to be an essential part of a healthy diet, studies have shown that they can also represent a hazard for human health as they are usually eaten raw and receive minimal treatment. In recent years, vegetables are among the food groups associated with higher rates of recurrence and are the leading cause of enteric diseases. There is a colossal amount of data available on fresh produce worldwide; however, limited data are available regarding the microbiological quality of ulam in Malaysia. In fact, cross -contamination that occurs during minimal processing of ulam has not yet been studied. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the microbiological quality and the occurrence of Escherichia coli and Salmonella in ulam. A total of 32 samples of ulam were randomly collected from wet markets and supermarkets in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. The samples were analysed for enumeration of aerobic mesophilic bacteria, coliforms, yeast and moulds, Bacillus cereus, Listeria monocytogenes and detection of Escherichia coli and Salmonella. In this study, the microbiological quality of ulam were in the range of 6.36-8.83; 4.14-7.48; 0-8.16; 3.94-6.45 log10 CFU/g for aerobic mesophilic bacteria, coliforms, Salmonella and yeast and moulds, respectively. Escherichia coli and Salmonella were detected in 3.13% and 9.4% of ulam samples, respectively. The findings from the study are intended to provide insight into the potential health risks associated with the consumption of ulam. The strong interdisciplinary approach by various agencies and development of safe agricultural systems will ensure the delivery of safe vegetables to the end-users.
ORTOA: One Round Trip Oblivious Access

Use of cloud based storage-as-a-service has surged due to its many advantages such as scalability and pay-as-you-use cost model. However, storing data in the clear on third-party servers creates vulnerabilities, especially pertaining to data privacy. Applications typically encrypt their data before off-loading it to cloud storage to ensure data privacy. To serve a client’s read or write request, an application either reads or updates the encrypted data on the cloud, revealing the type of client access to the untrusted cloud. An adversary however can exploit this information leak to compromise a user’s privacy by tracking read/write access patterns. Existing approaches (used in Oblivious RAM (ORAM) and frequency smoothing datastores) hide the type of client access by always reading the data followed by writing it, sequentially , irrespective of a read or write request, rendering one of these rounds redundant with respect to a client request. To mitigate this re-dundancy, we propose ORTOA- a One Round Trip Oblivious Access protocol that reads or writes data stored on remote storage in one round without revealing the type of access . To our knowledge, ORTOA is the first generalized protocol to obfuscate the type of access in a single round, reducing the communication overhead in half. ORTOA hides the type of individual access as well as the read/write workload distribution of an application, and due to its generalized design, it can be integrated with many existing obliviousness techniques that hide access patterns such as ORAM or frequency smoothing. Our experimental evaluations show that for objects of 160B size ORTOA’s throughput is 1.4-1.7x that of a baseline that requires two rounds to hide the type of access; and the baseline incurs 1.5-1.9x higher latency than ORTOA.
Isolation and characterization of novel antihypertensive bioactive peptides from brassica napus and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ace) inhibition potential.

Present study aimed to explore the antihypertensive potential of bioactive peptides isolated from Brassica napus protein as inhibitor of angiotensin converting enzyme. Protein was extracted and assessed for antihypertensive potential. The extracted protein showed 72% antihypertensive activity/potential with IC50 value of 24±5. 60μg/mL. Thirty-one fractions of peptides were isolated by hydrolyzing protein at different time intervals, pH, temperature and enzyme/substrate ratio. The antihypertensive potential of all isolated fractions was measured. It was found that only one peptide fraction exhibited significantly high (75%) antihypertensive potential. This hydrolyzed fraction was characterized through Liquid-Chromatography-Electrospray-Ionization-Mass-Spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS/MS). Eleven bioactive peptides were identified in hydrolyzate of Brassica napus which include Serine-Threonine, Methionine-Valine, Methionine-Leucine, Glutamine-Phenylalanine, Alanine-Threonine-Phenylalanine, Alanine-Leucine-Proline-Glycine, Valine-Alanine-Phenylalanine-Glycine, Aspartic acid-Proline-Methionine-Glutamine, Valine-Glutamine-Cysteine-Tyrosine, Methionine-Cysteine-Tyrosine-Tyrosine-Phenylalanine and Alanine-Leucine-Leucine-Alanine-Cysteine-Proline-Alanine. The current study showed that Brassica napus is an important food, having high amount of bioactive peptides with high antihypertensive potential, can control blood pressure very efficiently.
Expectation vs. Experience: Evaluating the Usability of Code Generation Tools Powered by Large Language Models

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLM) have made automatic code generation possible for real-world programming tasks in general-purpose programming languages such as Python. However, there are few human studies on the usability of these tools and how they fit the programming workflow. In this work, we conducted a within-subjects user study with 24 participants to understand how programmers use and perceive Copilot, a LLM-based code generation tool. We found that, while Copilot did not necessarily improve the task completion time or success rate, most participants preferred to use Copilot in daily programming tasks, since Copilot often provided a useful starting point and saved the effort of searching online. However, participants did face difficulties in understanding, editing, and debugging code snippets generated by Copilot, which significantly hindered their task-solving effectiveness. Finally, we highlighted several promising directions for improving the design of Copilot based on our observations and participants’ feedback.
Climate Change-Related Regulatory Risks and Bank Lending

JEL G21, Q51, Q58 We analyze the effect of climate change - related regulatory risks on banks ’ credit allocation. Our evidence suggests that effects crucially depend firms ’ exposure to regulatory risks as well as on the existing regulatory environment in borrowers ’ region. Following an increase in global salience of regulatory risks, banks allocate more credit to US firms that are likely to be negatively impacted by regulatory intervention. Conversely, in Europe, banks lend more to firms that could benefit from it. This divergence can be linked to the less stringent regulatory environment in the United States compared to Europe. We investigate the role of banks ’ behaviour in supporting or hindering the transition but do not find evidence that the increase in lending to negatively exposed US firms is directed at firms that have a higher likelihood to green their business model. In Europe, however, credit supply appears to facilitate the transition.
Who are the (dis)savers? A look at household saving patterns and wealth composition in Malta

1 Executive Summary . 3 Introduction: existing results on household saving patterns . 4 1. Do households reliably assess their saving positions? 8 2. Who are the dissavers in Malta? 13 3. Are there differences in wealth holdings between savers and dissavers? 16 Appendix A Logit estimates . 26 Appendix B Other figures . 27
Mycotoxigenic fungi contamination of grains and peanuts from open markets in Kelantan, Malaysia

Salisu, B. , Anua, S.M. , Wan Ishak, W.R. and Mazlan, N. Environmental and Occupational Health Programme, School of Health Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia. Department of Microbiology, Umaru Musa YarAdua University, PMB 2218, Katsina, Nigeria. Environmental and Occupational Health Programme, School of Health Sciences, Health Campus Universiti Sains Malaysia, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia. Nutrition and Dietetics Programme, School of Health Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia. Borneo Marine Research Institute, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Recording the dynamic polarisation gratings in pure nematic liquid crystal

We report on experimental realisation of polarisation dynamic gratings recording in pure nematic liquid crystal. This work is devoted to the experimental implementation of writing polarisation dynamic gratings in a pure nematic liquid crystal. The registration mechanism is based on the photorefractive effect in a cell filled with a pure nematic crystal under the action of an applied constant electric field. This phenomenon does not require the presence of photoexcited charge carriers in the liquid crystal and is explained by the extremely high anisotropy of the liquid crystal. The article provides an elementary theoretical model of this process. The dependences of the grating writing process on the spatial frequency of the interference field and the intensity of the recording beams are investigated. It was found that the spatial grating does not coincide with the interference field – the response of the medium is non-local. However, we do not associate this property with that in photorefractive crystals. In our case, a mechanism of purely geometric mismatch is more likely due to the peculiarity of the recording mechanism. One of the fundamental properties of the described processes is their independence from the wavelength of the recording radiation, which confirms the model of the recording mechanism we have chosen.
MERGER AND ACQUISITIONS (M&AS) IN THE INDIAN BANKIN G SECTOR IN POST LIBERALIZATION REGIME

The purpose of this paper is to explore various mo tivations of Merger and Acquisitions in the Indian banking sector. This includes the various aspects o f banking Industry’s Merger and Acquisitions. It al so compares pre and post merger financial performance of merged banks with the help of financial parameters like Gross-Profit Margin, Net-Profit Mar gin, Operating Profit Margin, Return on Capital Employed (ROCE), Return on Equity (ROE) and Debt-Eq uity Ratio. Through literature review it comes to know that most of the work done high lightened t he impact of Merger and Acquisitions on different aspects of the companies. The data of Merger and Ac quisitions since economic liberalization are collected for a set of various financial parameters . This study also examines the changes occurring in the acquiring firms on the basis of financial ground an d also the overall impact of Merger and acquisition s (M&As) on acquiring banks. The Researcher used inde pendent t-test for testing the statistical significance and this test is applied not only for the ratio analysis but also to test the effect of M erger and Acquisitions on the performance of banks. This perf ormance is being tested on the basis of two grounds i.e. Pre merger and Post merger. The result of the s udy indicates that the banks have been positivel y affected by the event of Merger and acquisitions (M &As). These results suggest that merged banks can obtain efficiency and gains through Merger and Acqu isitions (M&As) and passes the benefits to the equity share holders’ in the form of dividend.
Analysis of RNA Transcripts by the Molecular Microscope Diagnostic System (MMDx) Can Direct Management after Indication Kidney Transplant Biopsy

Establishing the cause of kidney allograft dysfunction is often reliant on biopsy appearances. Despite biennial refinements in the Banff classification there remain challenging issues such as ‘borderline’ for T Cell-Mediated Rejection (TCMR). Recently the Banff classification has introduced the potential for molecular assessment of the troubled kidney transplant. We report two cases of graft dysfunction in which the clinical decision making was potentiated by the Molecular Microscope® Diagnostic System (MMDx), both at indication and follow up biopsy. In the first case a patient with ‘borderline TCMR’ changes by traditional methods was shown to have ‘severe’ TCMR by MMDx and when re-biopsied because the creatinine did not improve MMDx demonstrated resolution of the molecular signals of rejection. Conversely the second case was diagnosed with Banff 1a TCMR by traditional methods, but the MMDx gene transcript analysis showed no rejection. Follow up biopsy showed no rejection by either traditional methods or MMDx and blinded re-reporting of the first biopsy disagreed with the initial histopathology report and agreed with MMDx. In both cases The Molecular Microscope offered certainty when traditional pathology was uncertain and if relied upon has the potential to better guide therapeutic interventions.
Secondary infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae decreases influenza virus replication and is linked to severe disease

ABSTRACT Secondary bacterial infection is a common complication in severe influenza virus infections. During the H1N1 pandemic of 2009, increased mortality was observed among healthy young adults due to secondary bacterial pneumonia, one of the most frequent bacterial species being Streptococcus pneumoniae (Spn). Previous studies in mice and ferrets have suggested a synergistic relationship between Spn and influenza viruses. In this study, the ferret model was used to examine whether secondary Spn infection (strains BHN97 and D39) influence replication and airborne transmission of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus (H1N1pdm09). Secondary infection with Spn after H1N1pdm09 infection consistently resulted in a significant decrease in viral titers in the ferret nasal washes. While secondary Spn infection appeared to negatively impact influenza virus replication, animals precolonized with Spn were equally susceptible to H1N1pdm09 airborne transmission. In line with previous work, ferrets with preceding H1N1pdm09 and secondary Spn infection had increased bacterial loads and more severe clinical symptoms as compared to animals infected with H1N1pdm09 or Spn alone. Interestingly, the donor animals that displayed the most severe clinical symptoms had reduced airborne transmission of H1N1pdm09. Based on these data, we propose an asymmetrical relationship between these two pathogens, rather than a synergistic one, since secondary bacterial infection enhances Spn colonization and pathogenesis but decreases viral titers.
Exposure to High Precariousness Prevalence Negatively Impacts Drug Prescriptions of General Practitioners to Precarious and Non-Precarious Populations: A Retrospective Pharmaco-Epidemiological Study

(1) Background: Precarious patients are more difficult to care for due to low literacy rates and poor adherence to treatment and hospitalization. These difficulties have detrimental effects on general practitioners (GPs), deteriorating medical communication, advice, diagnoses, and drug prescriptions. To better understand how precariousness affects primary care, we tested whether, among GPs, exposure to high precariousness prevalence more severely impacts drug prescriptions to precarious and non-precarious populations compared to low precariousness prevalence. Materials and methods: This pharmaco-epidemiological study, using linear regression analyses, compared the defined daily dose of 20 drugs prescribed by GPs to precarious and non-precarious patients in four French regions with low and high precariousness prevalence in 2015. (2) Findings: Exposure to high precariousness prevalence significantly impacted the prescriptions of nine medications to precarious patients and two medications to non-precarious patients, and distributed into three interaction patterns. (3) Interpretation: The selective over-prescription of drugs with easy intake modalities to precarious patients probably reflects GPs’ attempts to compensate for poor patient compliance. In contrast, the under-prescription of drugs targeting fungal infections in precarious populations and diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in non-precarious populations was seemingly due to a breakdown of empathy and professional exhaustion, causing medical neglect.
The Combined Use of 5-ALA and Chlorin e6 Photosensitizers for Fluorescence-Guided Resection and Photodynamic Therapy under Neurophysiological Control for Recurrent Glioblastoma in the Functional Motor Area after Ineffective Use of 5-ALA: Preliminary Results

The treatment of glial brain tumors is an unresolved problem in neurooncology, and all existing methods (tumor resection, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, radiosurgery, fluorescence diagnostics, photodynamic therapy, etc.) are directed toward increasing progression-free survival for patients. Fluorescence diagnostics and photodynamic therapy are promising methods for achieving gross total resection and additional treatment of residual parts of the tumor. However, sometimes the use of one photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy does not help, and the time until tumor relapse barely increases. This translational case report describes the preliminary results of the first combined use of 5-ALA and chlorin e6 photosensitizers for fluorescence-guided resection and photodynamic therapy of glioblastoma, which allowed us to perform total resection of tumor tissue according to magnetic resonance and computed tomography images, remove additional tissue with increased fluorescence intensity without neurophysiological consequences, and perform additional therapy. Two months after surgery, no recurrent tumor and no contrast uptake in the tumor bed were detected. Additionally, the patient had ischemic changes in the access zone and along the periphery and cystic-glial changes in the left parietal lobe.
Effect of Intercropping Wheat with Sugar Beet Patterens under Mineral Nitrogen and Bio-Organic Fertilization

Two field experiment were conducted at EL-Gemiza Agricultural Research station El- Gharbia Governorate, during 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons to study the effect of three sowing dates (15th October, 1st November and 15th November) and six intercropping sowing rate of faba bean (Vicia faba) cv. Giza 843 with sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) cv. Halawa kws. In all intercropping systems (IS) sugar beet was35000 plant/fad (sugar beet sown one side of bed 120cm width with 1 seed/hill and 20cm hill space) while, faba bean densities differ under all intercropping systems as follows, IS1{70000 faba bean plant/fad (sown one row on the top of sugar beet ridges with two seeds/hill and 10cm hill space)}, IS2 {70000 faba bean plant/fad (sown two rows on the top of sugar beet bed and the bed with one seed/hill and 10cm hill space)}, IS3{(35000 faba bean plants /fad. Sown one row on the top of sugar beet bed with two seeds/hill and 20 cm hill space)}, IS4{35000 faba bean plant/fad (sown two rows on the top of sugar beet ridges with one seed/hill and 20cm hill space)}, IS5{17500 faba bean plant/fad (sown one row on the top of sugar beet ridges with two seeds/hill and 40 cm hill space)} and IS6{17500 faba bean plant/fad (sown two rows on the top of sugar beet ridges with one seeds/hill and 40cm hill space)}.
Parental neglect and emotional wellbeing among adolescent students from India: social network addiction as a mediator and gender as a moderator

ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study is to empirically examine the effect of parental neglect on the social network (SN) addiction of younger adults. Based on Family System Theory and Attachment Theory, the present study also examines the effect of SN addiction on emotional wellbeing. In addition, the role of gender as a moderator in the relationship between parental neglect and SN addiction and emotional wellbeing was studied. The data collected from 185 young adult students from various educational institutions in the southern part of India (Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu) was analyzed after thoroughly checking the psychometric properties of the structured instrument. Hayes’s PROCESS was employed to analyze the data and test hypotheses. The regression results reveal: (i) parental neglect is positively and significantly related to SN addiction and negatively related to emotional wellbeing, (ii) SN addiction is negatively related to emotional wellbeing, (iii) gender moderates the relationship between parental neglect and SN addiction, (iv) gender moderates the relationship between parental neglect and emotional wellbeing, and (v) SN addiction mediates the relationship between parental neglect and emotional wellbeing. This study contributes to families and the literature on gender to some extent. The study suggests that parents need to care for young adults and prevent them from misusing the internet and social media. The study highlights that young adolescent girls in India were better when compared to adolescent boys, even when parental neglect was very high. This finding corroborates the literature on gender that males are more addicted to SN than females; thereby, the emotional wellbeing of females was better when compared to males. The conceptual model in the present research, to our knowledge, is the first of its kind in India to examine the social network addiction by young adults and gender as a moderator. The psychological implications of social network addiction are discussed.