Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Some Plant Extracts and Bio-Control on Snap Bean Root Rot Infection, Growth, Green Yield and Pods Quality During Autumn Seasons

: Snap bean is considering one of the most important exportation vegetable crops in Egypt for exportation. Green pods of snap bean are an essential source of protein for vegetarian diet, but it infect by one of the serious fungus diseases i. e. , root-rot disease especially at late spring and autumn seasons. So, two field experiments were carried out during two autumn successive seasons of 2018 and 2019 years at the Experimental Farm of Kaha Station, Qalubia Governorate, Egypt to evaluate two methods of adding some plant extracts and bio-control i. e. , dipping the seeds before sowing and dipping the seeds before sowing with drenching the plants three times during growing season by some plant extracts i. e. , Ginger, Thyme, Rosemary and Clove as well as some bio-control (Tricohdrema 34 or Biochare) treatments compared with pesticides "Tebuconazole" on reducing the influence of root rot disease and minimizing its injury as well as reflect of that on growth and yield of snap bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L) cv. paulista. The results showed that dipping the seeds before sowing by 30 minutes and drenching the plants three times during growing by plant extracts of ginger, rosemary, thyme and biochare have led to decrease root rot disease severity (%) in both seasons compared with fungicide "Tebuconazole" and the control. Additionally, the plant extracts have an effective role in decreasing the cell wall-degrading enzymes (viz. cellulose and polygalactonase) secreted by fungi causing root rot diseases. i.e., the snap bean plants treated with thyme, ginger and rosemary in both the two methods of adding which have a lowest cellulose and polygalacturonases enzyme content. On the other hand, these plant extracts led to the highest value of total phenols in snap bean plants. In the other side, the results clear that, dipping the seeds before sowing and drenching the plants three times during growing by Ginger, Thyme, Rosemary and Clove as well as bio-control (Tricohdrema 34 or biochare) induced a significant effect on the vegetative growth parameters of snap bean plants and registered higher green pods yield and best pods quality than the control. According to the obtained results, it can recommend to dipping the snap bean seeds before sowing (30 minutes) with drenching the plants three times during growing by any one of the previous plant extracts i.e., Ginger, Thyme, Rosemary or Clove as well as Tricohdrema 34 or biochare) respectively, to obtain high yield and lowest infection.
Fine-Scale Patterns of Soil and Plant Surface Temperatures in an Alpine Fellfield Habitat, White Mountains, California

Abstract Within alpine environments the interactions of air temperature, solar irradiance, wind, surface albedo, microtopography, and biotic traits all influence patterns of soil and plant canopy temperatures. The resulting mosaic of surface temperatures has a profound impact on ecosystem processes, plant survival, and ecophysiological performance. Previous studies have documented large and persistent variations in microhabitat temperatures over mesoscale alpine terrains. We have used a novel mobile system to examine changes in soil and plant canopy surface temperatures at spatial scales of centimeters and temporal scales of minutes in an alpine fellfield habitat in the White Mountains of California. In the middle of a summer day, the mean surface temperature differences between points 2, 5, and 10 cm apart were 2.9, 5.4, and 9.0 °C, respectively, and extreme differences of 18 °C or more were found over distances of a few centimeters. These thermal patterns are due not only to substrate material but also to biotic conditions of plant canopy architecture and ecophysiological traits of individual species. The magnitude of temperature variation at these fine scales is greater than the range of warming scenarios in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections, suggesting that these habitats offer the capacity of significant thermal heterogeneity for plant survival.
THE POSTCRANIAL ANATOMY OF THE MEGALOSAUR DUBREUILLOSAURUS VALESDUNENSIS (DINOSAURIA THEROPODA) FROM THE MIDDLE JURASSIC OF NORMANDY, FRANCE

Abstract The osteology of the postcranial skeleton of the holotype of Dubreuillosaurus valesdunensis (Allain, 2002) from the Middle Jurassic Calcaires de Caen Formation (Bathonian) is described here. In addition to previous phylogenetic analyses, characters of the caudal vertebrae show that Dubreuillosaurus, gen. nov., is distinct from Poekilopleuron. Some features of Dubreuillosaurus are unique among Spinosauroidea, including the medioventrally directed femoral head and the convex anterior surface of the distal end of the femur. A re-examination of the observations made by Eudes-Deslongchamps on Poekilopleuron suggests that megalosaurids were piscivorous to a certain extent.
Congenital neurodevelopmental anomalies in pediatric and young Congenital neurodevelopmental anomalies in pediatric and young adult cancer adult cancer

Congenital anomalies that arediagnosed inat least120,000USinfants everyyearare the leading cause of infant death and contribute to disability and pediatric hospitalizations. Several large-scale epidemiologic studies have provided substantial evidence of an association between congenital anomalies and cancer risk in children, suggesting potential underlying cancer-predisposing conditions and the involvement of developmental genetic pathways. Electronic medical records from 1,107 pediatric, adolescent, and young adult oncology patients were reviewed. The observed number (O) of congenital anomalies among children with a specific pediatric cancer subtype was compared tothe expectednumber (E)of anomaliesbasedon the frequency of congenital anomaliesintheentirestudypopulation.TheO/Eratiosweretestedforsignificanceusing Fisher ’ s exact test. The Kaplan – Meier method was used to compare overall and neurological malignancy survival rates following tumor diagnosis. Thirteen percent of patients had a congenital anomaly diagnosis prior to their cancer diagnosis. When stratified by congenital anomaly subtype, there was an excess of neurological anomalies amongchildrenwithcentralnervoussystemtumors(O/E = 1.56,95%CI1.13 – 2.09). Male pediatric cancer patients were more likely than females to have a congenital anomaly, particularly those <5 years of age (O/E 1.35, 95%CI 0.97 – 1.82). Our study provides additional insight into the association between specific congenital anomaly types and pediatric cancer development. Moreover, it may help to inform the development of new screening policies and support hypothesis-driven research investigating mechanisms underlying tumor predisposition in children with congenital anomalies.
Experiences with and observations of direct-touch tabletops

The design of multitouch multiuser tabletop user interfaces is still in its infancy and is not yet well understood. To date, published experimental results have primarily focused on controlled user studies. In this paper, we present observations of user experience "in the wild" on interactive tables in four different real world contexts - all noncontrolled settings. We reflect upon our collective experience, report our observations, and summarize lessons learned by identifying design considerations relating to several aspects of interactive tables, such as simultaneous touching, ambiguous input, one-fingered touch, finger resolution, alternate touch input, crowding and clutter, text input, orientation, multiuser coordination, occlusion, ergonomic issues, and mental models.
‘Cap carbonates’ and Neoproterozoic glacigenic successions from the Kimberley region, north‐west Australia

The term ‘cap carbonate’ is commonly used to describe carbonate units associated with glacigenic deposits in Neoproterozoic successions. Attempts to use carbonate units as stratigraphic markers have been counfounded by inconsistent identification of ‘cap carbonates’ and a somewhat broad use of the term. Systematic sedimentological and geochemical analysis of carbonate rocks (mostly dolomite) associated with glacigenic deposits from the Neoproterozoic succession of the Kimberley region, north‐western Australia, shows that it is possible to characterize such units by their specific mineralogical, sedimentological, petrographic, geochemical and stratigraphic features. Hence, it is possible to differentiate true ‘cap carbonates’ from other carbonate units that are associated with glacigenic deposits. In the Kimberley successions two broad carbonate types are identified that reflect two stratigraphically distinct depositional realms. Carbonate rocks from the Egan Formation and Boonall Dolomite (the youngest carbonate units in the succession) are characterized by sedimentary components and features that are consistent with deposition on shallow platforms or shelves, analogous to Phanerozoic warm‐water carbonate platform deposits. In contrast, dolomite from the Walsh, Landrigan and Moonlight Valley Tillites preserves a suite of sedimentary and geochemical characteristics that are distinctly different from Phanerozoic‐like carbonate rocks; they are thin (ca 6 m), laterally persistent units of thinly laminated dolomicrite/dolomicrospar recording δ13C fluctuations from −1‰ to −5‰. These latter features are consistent with a ‘Marinoan‐style cap‐carbonate’ rock described from other Neoproterozoic successions. The similarity and broad distribution of these rocks in Australia, when considered within the context of genetic models suggesting a global oceanographic–atmospheric event, support their use as a lithostratigraphic marker horizon for the start of the Ediacaran Period at ca 635 Ma.
Reef drowning during the last deglaciation: Evidence for catastrophic sea-level rise and ice-sheet collapse

Elevations and ages of drowned Acropora palmata reefs from the Caribbean-Atlantic region document three catastrophic, metre-scale sea-level–rise events during the last deglaciation. These catastrophic rises were synchronous with (1) collapse of the Laurentide and Antarctic ice sheets, (2) dramatic reorganization of ocean-atmosphere circulation, and (3) releases of huge volumes of subglacial and proglacial meltwater. This correlation suggests that release of stored meltwater periodically destabilized ice sheets, causing them to collapse and send huge fleets of icebergs into the Atlantic. Massive inputs of ice not only produced catastrophic sea-level rise, drowning reefs and destabilizing other ice sheets, but also rapidly reduced the elevation of the Laurentide ice sheet, flipping atmospheric circulation patterns and forcing warm equatorial waters into the frigid North Atlantic. Such dramatic evidence of catastrophic climate and sea-level change during deglaciation has potentially disastrous implications for the future, especially as the stability of remaining ice sheets—such as in West Antarctica—is in question.
Increasing the versatility of an ex vivo model in nanosafety studies and fibrosis

Nanomaterials are materials in the size range of 1-100 nm, although their classifcation remains still debated in the field. Despite their small size, nanotechnology applications are many and their number is continuously growing in the industry sector as well as in the biomedical field. Nanomedicine field combines chemical and mechanical properties of nanomaterials to prepare e.g. new drugs that may reach the intended target with higher efficiency than standard drugs. However, nanomaterials are everywhere and humans can be exposed to them via external (air, water, food, etc.) and/or internal sources, therefore exposed to them also unintentionally. For this reason it is pivotal to investigate their potential toxicity in cells and organism. Nanosafety, it is the discipline that studies the potential hazards of nanomaterials and their interference with biological systems. One of the major problem in this field, it is to find reliable advanced in vitro models. In this thesis, Precision-Cut Tissue Slices, 3D model, derived from mice, rat and importantly human are explored as alternative to in vivo and in vitro models to study nanoparticles behavior and potential toxicity ex vivo using real pieces of liver, lung and kidney. Tissue slices have the great advantage to maintain intact the cell ratio and architecture of the organ from where they are extracted. Briefly, we demonstrate that it is possible to reproduce ex vivo key features of in vivo biodistribution, e.g. nanoparticles are preferentially accumulated in macrophages. Furthermore, this ex vivo model has been used in the second part of the thesis to study the expression of Vanin 1 protein, in fibrosis.
EPIPUNCTAE AND PHOSPHATIZED SETAE IN LATE ORDOVICIAN PLAESIOMYID BRACHIOPODS FROM ANTICOSTI ISLAND, EASTERN CANADA

Abstract Epipunctae, a new type of shell perforation, are well developed in typical taxa of the family Plaesiomyidae, a group of common orthide brachiopods from Laurentia and some other tropically located tectonic plates of Late Ordovician age. These minute, prominently elongate, tubular structures are similar to endopunctae in size and density, but differ in being oblique, intersecting the shell surface at a relatively low angle, and being confined largely to the outer portion of the shell wall. The tubules are similar in orientation to aditicules within the same shells but are much smaller and denser, usually aligned along fine growth lines and arranged in crude longitudinal columns. Exceptionally preserved phosphatic molds of bundled setal canals inside epipunctae and aditicules, described for the first time in this paper, are direct evidence that these two types of tubular structures of different sizes had the same function of housing sensory setae along the shell margin, but both the setae and the tubules became abandoned in the outer portion of the shell wall through burial by the secondary shell layer when the shell margin migrated forward. Epipunctae have been found so far only in plaesiomyid shells, but aditicules are common in many groups of the order Orthida. The taxonomic value of epipunctae is shown by a reassessment of Pionorthis Schuchert and Cooper, 1932. The hypotype previously regarded widely, but erroneously, as the archetype of ‘Orthis sola’ Billings, 1866, the type species of Pionorthis, is allied to Plaesiomys Hall and Clarke, 1892. It bears the characteristic epipunctae. The holotype of Orthis sola is a dalmanelloid shell with true punctae, assignable to Mendacella Cooper, 1930. This warrants rejection of the genus Pionorthis.
AN ANALYSIS OF PAKISTAN POLICY IN THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN KPK PAKISTAN

This study seeks to understand those gaps in the interaction of the policies of Pakistan and the US which have negative ramifications for Pakistan in general, and the Pakhtuns of KPK in particular. How the war on terror has contributed to the trends of stereotyping Pakhtuns and the impacts of these trends are analyzed. It also examines the dents caused by the insurgency and counter-insurgency operations to the socio-economic milieu of Pakhtuns. A complete qualitative documentary analysis has been performed with the application of field data in the form of case studies. The interaction between US’ and Pakistan’s policies and the respective strategic compulsions of both the allies and its ramifications for Pakistan, and particularly for the Pakhtuns of the KPK, is the major theme of the paper. The second part of the paper argues against the flux of stereotyped arguments against Pakhtuns in the context of the war on terror. These arguments are unjustified and it is argued that these accounts of some of the writers may need correction. The third part highlights some major dents to the socialeconomic milieu of Pakhtuns. Finally, the paper concludes that the hidden objectives of US behind the war on terror, the involvement of the extra regional characters, Pakistan’s strategic compulsions, lack of political will on the part of Pakistani leadership and the exploitation of the Pakhtuns’ culture by the militants are the major factors causing damage to the socio-economic life of Pakhtuns in FATA and KPK.
Banach Center Publications, Volume ** Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences Warszawa 200* the Weyl Algebra, Spherical Harmonics, and Hahn Polynomials

In this article we apply the duality technique of R. Howe to study the structure of the Weyl algebra. We introduce a one-parameter family of " ordering maps " , where by an ordering map we understand a vector space isomorphism of the polynomial algebra on R 2d with the Weyl algebra generated by creation and annihilation operators a + d. Corresponding to these orderings, we construct a one-parameter family of sl 2 actions on the Weyl algebra, what enables us to define and study certain subspaces of the Weyl algebra — the space of Weyl spherical harmonics and the space of " radial polynomials ". For the latter we generalize results of Luck and Biedenharn, Bender et al., and Koornwinder describing the radial elements in terms of continuous Hahn polynomials of the number operator. 1 Introduction. This article reports on an investigation (still in progress) of the Weyl algebra with the aid of R. Howe's duality technique. More specifically, we attempt to transfer the information obtained by considering the action on the (commutative) polynomial algebra on R 2d of a triple of classical operators (consisting of the Laplacian, Euler operator and multiplication by the square of the radius and giving rise to an sl 2 action on this algebra) to the case of the (noncommutative) Weyl algebra with 2d
Prevalence of skin pseudotumors in three species of pleuronectids in Notsuke Bay, Hokkaido, northern Japan

北海道東部にある野付湾のクロガシラガレイPleuronectes schrenkiには皮膚偽腫瘍と呼ばれる病変が見られることが知られているが，魚種の同定に問題があることが指摘されていた。 そこで，野付湾からカレイ類を採集して種を正確に同定し，本病変の発生状況を調べた。 その結果，本病変はクロガレイPleuronectes obscurusに高頻度に認められたが，クロガシラガレイには低頻度にしか認められず，過去にクロガシラガレイと報告された種はクロガレイであると示唆された。 病変の発生頻度は，クロガレイの魚体長の増加とともに低下した。 また，病変はトウガレイPleuronectes pinnifasciatusにも極めて低頻度に認められた。 トウガレイにおける本病変の確認は本報告が最初である。 なお，前報（Nagasawa and Nishiuchi,2012）の和文要旨で，オショロガレイをヌマガレイとスナガレイの雑種と記したが，正しくはヌマガレイとイシガレイの雑種であり，ここで訂正する。
Extended-Spectrum ß-Lactamase – and AmpC-Producing Enterobacteria in Healthy Broiler Chickens , Germany

1253 During 2010, we evaluated the presence of extendedspectrum ß-lactamase– and AmpC-producing enterobacteria in broiler chickens at slaughter. Samples (70 carcasses and 51 ceca) from 4 flocks were analyzed by direct plating and after enrichment. Extended-spectrum ß-lactamase producers were found in 88.6% and 72.5% of carcasses and ceca, respectively; AmpC producers were found in 52.9% and 56.9% of carcasses and ceca, respectively. Most isolates were identified as Escherichia coli; Enterobacter cloacae (cecum) and Proteus mirabilis (carcass) were found in 2 samples each. Molecular characterization revealed the domination of CTX-M genes; plasmidic AmpC was CIT-like. Phylogenetic grouping of E. coli showed types A (31.5%), B1 (20.2%), B2 (13.5%), and D (34.8%). These findings provide evidence that healthy broilers in Germany are a source for the dissemination of transmissible resistance mechanisms in enterobacteria brought from the rearing environment into the food chain during slaughtering.
Seasonal Influences on the Productive Performance of Horro Cows at Bako, Ethiopia

Ten years’ data of milk production and reproduction from 473 Horro cows at Bako Agricultural Research Center was investigated if there was seasonal variation in milk production and reproductive parameters (days open and services per conception) of Horro cows. Cows grazed on natural pasture for about 7 hours by day and kept in barns at night. Supplementary feeds (hay, silage, concentrate) were provided to cows from 7 months of pregnancy until parturition and only concentrate meal during milking. Multiple regression analysis from SAS was used to investigate the relationship of milk production, days open and services per conception with mean temperature, relative humidity, sunshine hours and wind speed. Stepwise selection procedure was used to examine the different regression equations. Mean temperatures and Temperature Humidity Index remained higher in February to April, after which they declined. Milk yield was affected by daily mean temperature (P 0.05) among seasons, but was higher for cows calved in the spring and summer. Milk production was found to be significantly (P<0.01) influenced by parity; yields increasing from parity one to parity four where it peaked. Services per conception were significantly (P<0.01) affected by only relative humidity. Significant (P<0.05) differences were observed in days open with the highest days open being in February (224 days). Days open was significantly affected (P<0.001) by daily mean temperature.
ABUNDANCE INDEX OF YOUNG PACIFIC BLUEFIN TUNA (THUNNUS ORIENTALIS) ESTIMATED FROM THE JAPANESE SET NET FISHERY'S DATA

SUMMARY The abundance index of young Pacific bluefin tuna (PBF) was estimated from the Japanese set net fishery’s data. To estimate the abundance index, catch at size was estimated using size measurement and catch data by area, year, month and specific size groups. Size measurement data were fundamentally weighted by catch data. If the catch in number is existed, size composition consisting of mean weight obtained from the catch in weight divided by catch in number was allocated to each bin of size class using a gamma distribution under the assumption that the coefficient of variations was the same as those of size measurement data. The estimated catch at size was observed to shift to smaller size. The effective sample size of the Japanese set net fishery was also estimated and it showed that the value was, on average, smaller than the actual sample size. The annual changes in the 1 abundance index estimated from GLM with negative binomial error distribution suggested that the abundance of young Pacific bluefin tuna has been increasing in recent years.
Disk scheduling algorithms based on rotational position

Laboratories Technical Report When sufficient processor power is available, disk scheduling based on rotational position as well as disk arm position is shown to provide improved performance. A taxonomy of algorithms based on Shortest Access Time First (SATF) have been developed, and several of them have been explored through simulations. The access-time based algorithms match or outperform all the seek-time ones we studied. The best of them is Aged Shortest Access Time First(w), or ASATF(w), which forms a continuum between FCFS and SATF . It is equal or superior to the others in both mean response time and variance over the entire useful range.
Puzzling thermonuclear burst behaviour from the transient low-mass X-ray binary IGR J17473−2721

We investigate the thermonuclear bursting behaviour of IGR J17473−2721, an X-ray transient that in 2008 underwent a 6-month long outburst, starting (unusually) with an X-ray burst. We detected a total of 57 thermonuclear bursts throughout the outburst with AGILE, Swift, Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory(INTEGRAL). The wide range of inferred accretion rates (between <1 and ≃20 per cent of the Eddington accretion rate ) spanned during the outburst allows us to study changes in the nuclear burning processes and to identify up to seven different phases. The burst rate increased gradually with the accretion rate until it dropped (at a persistent flux corresponding to ≃15 per cent of ) a few days before the outburst peak, after which bursts were not detected for a month. As the persistent emission subsequently decreased, the bursting activity resumed at a much lower rate than during the outburst rise. This hysteresis may arise from the thermal effect of the accretion on the surface nuclear burning processes, and the time-scale is roughly consistent with that expected for the neutron star crust thermal response. On the other hand, an undetected ‘superburst’, occurring within a data gap near the outburst peak, could have produced a similar quenching of burst activity.