Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Sea turtles nesting in Surinam

PREFACE The first manuscript for this book originated in 1970 in the form of a revised translation of 'Zeeschildpadden in Suriname,, a mimeographed report written primarily for internal use. This English version was of the same hybrid nature as the Dutch booklet, which was meant to be a comprehensive general guide for visitors to the nesting beaches, as well as a publication of the results of local research. The present English version, which has grown to three times the size of the original, maintains this hybrid nature. Consequently this book contains sections on general taxonomy and on the biology of sea turtles, subjects which have been treated elsewhere in a superior way by more competent authors. This general information, which is included to make the book readable for the general naturalist interested in our sea turtles, alternates with comprehensive local data — for the attention of turtle specialists abroad — which are far too detailed to captivate the attention of the general reader. In spite of this disadvantage I decided to have the manuscript published in this form, one reason being the fear that otherwise it would never be published. The other reason which prevented the presentation of it in a more pure form lies in the ontogeny of the manuscript. The correction of the translation was not finished before the end of the 1971 turtle season, when so much information became available that the text had to undergo a thorough revision. This was not completed before the main force of the next season's turtles was making its landfall on our coast, again adding substantially to our knowledge. Shifting of the beaches caused the maps and descriptions of the beaches to become obsolete. This repetitious story, which reflects itself
Interneuron Subtypes are Differentially Altered in Malformed, Epileptogenic Cortex

INTERNEURON SUBTYPES ARE DIFFERENTIALLY ALTERED IN MALFORMED, EPILEPTOGENIC CORTEX by Amanda L. George A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2008 Director: Kimberle Jacobs, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology The propensity for seizures in patients with epilepsy is due to underlying cortical hyperexcitability, the mechanisms for which are poorly understood. Particularly difficult to treat are patients with developmental malformations of cortex. Using the freeze-lesion rat model of one such malformation, polymicrogyria, we identified, in lesioned cortex, alterations in specific interneuron subpopulations that may promote hyperexcitability. Previous studies demonstrate increased excitatory input to the paramicrogyral region. An increase in the frequency of spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents (sEPSCs) recorded from pyramidal cells has also been shown. We report an increase in sEPSCs recorded from one subtype of interneuron, the low threshold-spiking interneuron (LTS), while sEPSCs in the fast-spiking (FS) interneuron remain unchanged. Distributed equally to pyramidal cells and interneurons, extra excitatory afferents should simply increase overall activity level but maintain the balance of excitation and inhibition. Selective changes in one or more interneuron subpopulations could allow inhibition to appear unchanged, while permitting problematic alterations in inhibitory circuitry. In what appears to be a morphological division of labor, interneurons with intralaminar orientations are typically characterized as FS, while intracolumnar orientations are associated with LTS cells. These cells are clearly distinguished by a combination of visual identification and electrophysiological and intrinsic properties. We report that these characteristics are unchanged in lesioned cortex, indicating that the malformation is not responsible for intrinsic alteration of the cell types. However, some firing properties demonstrate slight differences that may, in cooperation with the altered level of input, amplify the pro-epileptogenic changes in circuitry. Finally, we also report that there is anomalous expression of metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR) in malformed cortex. Our data show that the expression of mGluR5, normally causing no functional response in control cortex, contributes to the activation of interneurons in paramicrogyral (PMG) cortex. These findings provide new insight to the mechanisms of cortical hyperexcitability and identify a possible target for future pharmacological
Water Mass Properties Derived From Satellite Observations in the Barents Sea

The Barents Sea is a region of deep water formation where Atlantic Water is converted into cooler, fresher Barents Sea Water. Barents Sea Water properties exhibit variability at seasonal, interannual, and decadal timescales. This variability is transferred to Arctic Intermediate Water, which eventually contributes to the deeper branch of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Variations in Barents Sea Water properties are re ﬂ ected in steric height (contribution of density to sea ‐ level variations) that depends on heat and freshwater contents and is a quantity usually derived from in situ observations of water temperature, salinity, and pressure that remain sparse during winter in the Barents Sea. This analysis explores the utility of satellite observations for representing Barents Sea Water properties and identifying trends and sources of variability through novel methods. We present our methods for combining satellite observations of eustatic height (the contribution of mass to sea ‐ level variations), sea surface height, and sea surface temperature, validated by in situ temperature and salinity pro ﬁ les, to estimate steric height. We show that sea surface temperature is a good proxy for heat content in the upper part of the water column in the southeastern Barents Sea and that freshwater content can be reconstructed from satellite data. Our analysis indicates that most of the seasonality in Barents Sea Water properties arises from the balance between ocean heat transport and atmospheric heat ﬂ ux, while its interannual variability is driven by heat and freshwater advection. ocean from surface to bottom but are costly and to some degree limited by sea ice and weather. Satellites observe the ocean more frequently, and cover larger parts of it, but cannot measure below the surface. We combine different satellite measurements with novel physical and statistical techniques to infer ocean heat and freshwater contents, integrated over the upper part of the water column. Using our satellite ‐ based reconstruction of upper ocean heat, we determine that the seasonal ocean heat import is balanced by the warming of the atmosphere by the ocean. These results increase the utility of the available satellite measurements and demonstrate their potential for providing insight that can improve predictions about sea ice and ocean properties in this changing Arctic region.
Environmental Disclosure Practice of Nepalese “A” Listed Companies

The disclosure of environment related information is an inevitable component of corporate social reporting paradigm. Due to growing awareness to protect environment, firms around the globe are supposed to be involved in activities in protection and betterment of environment. The stakeholder theory suggests for considering stakeholders while making corporate strategies and reporting them information including initiations done in behalf of environmental responsibility. This paper attempts to study the corporate environmental disclosure practice of selected 45 NEPSE “A” listed companies of Nepal. Different ten measures of this environmental theme were considered for analysis. Content analysis was applied to know the extent of disclosure practice of the companies and variance test to examine variations in environmental disclosure of the companies within seven industry types. The result of content analysis indicated that disclosure status of environment information related items is very low and there is a significant variation in environmental disclosure practice of the companies across seven industry types.
Avaliação de proteínas recombinantes com potencial para diagnóstico da Leishmaniose Visceral e indução de imunidade protetora

Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), a more serious form of Leishmaniasis, affects humans and dogs. The control of VL still depends on more efficient methods of diagnosis and prevention. For their diagnosis, serological tests are the best option, since they present great sensitivity, specificity and easy execution for their prevention. This study aimed at the evaluation of recombinant proteins for use in early diagnosis and in alternatives of vaccine against human and canine VL. Initially, assays using total extract of Leishmania infantum showed a relevant sensitivity in human sera of VL, but with cross-reaction with serum of patients with Chagas' disease. Already individual recombinant antigens (the Lci) showed greater specificity, but only a mixture of these reached high sensitivity and specificity in human and canine sera. Based on this, we sought the development of a chimeric (Q5) protein containing fragments of the best individual recombinant antigens. This chimera proved to be easy to produce and highly efficacious in diagnosing humans (82%) and dogs (99%) with VL. Further prediction of epitopes from the individual antigens and defined peptides that were pooled into a novel chimeric protein, now for induction of protective immunity after expression in Leishmania tarentolae. These results suggest the use of the new recombinant chimeric antigens as alternatives both for the diagnosis and for the immunotherapy of VL.
Comparison of Germ Tube Production By Candida Albicans In Various Media

Introduction: Candidiasis is one of the important opportunistic fungal infections in human. Candida albicans (C.albicans) is the predominant Candida species isolated from clinical samples. In routine laboratory, C.albicans is diagnosed on the basis of culture, staining morphology, germ tube production, & chlamydospore formation on cornmeal agar. The objective of this study was to assess the reliability of different media for germ tube production. Material & Methods: The study was carried out on various clinical samples received in Microbiology department of M.P.Shah medical college, Jamnagar from January to July 2011. Among all clinical samples, 100 isolates of C.albicans were compared for germ tube production in 4 different media (sterile horse serum, pooled human serum, trypticase soy broth and Brain heart infusion (BHI) broth. Candida species were also identified by using culture, staining morphology, & chlamydospore formation on cornmeal agar. Results: In our study, among 100 C.albicans isolates, sterile horse serum gave 100% germ tube production, pooled human serum gave 93%, BHI gave 63% and trypticase soy broth gave 60% germ tube production at the end of 2 hours of incubation. Conclusion: This study shows that sterile horse serum is best medium for germ tube production of C.albicans and it can replace human serum which has its disadvantage in being bio hazardous with false negative reporting
Challenges in Teaching Integrated-Listening Skill in the University

This research describes challenges encountered by EFL instructor in teaching integrated-listening skill in the university. To deal with this issue, a qualitative approach notably a basic interpretive study was deployed as the research design. Conducted in a private university in Blitar, East Java, this study took 23 students enrolled in Advanced Listening course as the participants. The data were collected through observation, interview, and document analysis. The result revealed that EFL instructor experienced some challenges in teaching integrated-listening skill to university students. The challenges included difficulties in locating appropriate materials, the students’ low level of English proficiency, and the students’ problematic attitude. Those problems hindered the students’ ability in both speaking and writing activities as a follow-up to listening activity. Current gap in listening-related study is recognized, and suggestions for both practitioners and future researchers are proposed.
Determinant of Audit Report Lag Among Mining Companies In Indonesia

Time period in completing the audit work until the date of publishing audit report is called audit report lag. BAPEPAM requires each of going-public companies to publish their annual reports not later than three months after the fiscal year ends. The aim of this research was to determine the effect of profitability, solvency, company size, audit opinion, and size of public accounting firm on audit report lag at mining companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange during the period of 2013-2017. As many as 12 samples were obtained through purposive sampling technique. The data analysis technique used was the multiple regression analysis. The results showed that the profitability and company size negatively affected the audit report lag, while the other variables, such as solvency, audit opinion, and size of public accounting firm, had no significant effect on the audit report. The result of simultaneous test showed that all independent variables influenced audit report lag with 32.8% of determination coefficient.
Study on genetic diversity of terminal drought tolerant groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) genotypes based on morphological and molecular data

Genetics divergence using D analysis of 49 terminal drought yolerant genotypes of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) revealed existence of considerable diversity for fourteen different characters and genotypes were grouped into seven clusters. The cluster I was the largest containing 23 genotypes followed by cluster II and cluster IV consisted 11 and 9genotypes respectively. The cluster V, VI and VII were solitary in nature. Among the 27 groundnut specific SSR markers, only seven primer pairs showed polymorphic among test genotypes. The polymorphic markers amplified a total of 20 alleles with an average of 2.86 alleles per loci and polymorphism information content ranged from 0.47 to 0.66. The dendrogram was obtained from the binary data deduced from the DNA profiles of thesamples analyzed, and at 82 per cent similarity coefficient six major clusters were formed. Cluster III consists of maximum number of genotypes followed by Cluster I and Cluster II. The genotype included in the diverse clusters can be used as promising parents for hybridization programme for obtaining high heterotic response and developing drought tolerant genotypes.
Rainwater harvesting as an adaptation to climate change

Extreme climate events such as aridity, drought, flood, cyclone and stormy rainfall are expected to leave an impact on human society. They are also expected to generate widespread response to adapt and mitigate the sufferings associated with these extremes. Societal and cultural responses to prolonged drought include population dislocation, cultural separation, habitation abandonment, and societal collapse. A typical response to local aridity is the human migration to safer and productive areas. However, climate and culture can interact in numerous ways. We hypothesize that people may resort to modify dwelling environments by adapting new strategies to optimize the utility of available water by harvesting rain rather than migrating to newer areas. We review recent palaeoclimatological evidence for climate change during the Holocene, and match those data with archaeological and historical records to test our 'climate change-rainwater harvest' hypothesis. We find correlation between heightened historical human efforts for construction of rainwater harvesting structures across regions in response to abrupt climate fluctuations, like aridity and drought. Historical societal adaptations to climate fluctuations may provide insights on potential responses of modern societies to future climate change that has a bearing on water resources, food production and management of natural systems.
Analysis of a PBX Toll Fraud Honeypot

Organisations are moving over from legacy telecommunications to Voice over IP (VoIP), enabling greater flexibility, resilience and an overall cost reduction. Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) is considered to be the main VoIP protocol in the business–to-business market, but the correct implementation and configuration is not always well-understood. The failure to configure SIP systems correctly has led to significant fraud exploiting a range of vulnerabilities and billions of dollars every year being stolen from companies of all sizes through PBX Hacking via the medium of Toll Fraud. Previous research into this area is now dated but suggested fast-changing approaches by attackers. Industry organisations such as the Communications Fraud Control Association (CFCA) acknowledged this is a fast-growing problem. To quantify the size of the current problem, a Honeypot experiment was undertaken using a popular phone system used by businesses. The Honeypot ran for 10 days and recorded just under 19 million SIP messages. This research has identified attackers are using various sophisticated methods to attempt to gain access and trick a PBX into making calls. When comparing previous research, the rate of attack is approximately 30 times more aggressive and the countries from where attacks originate are distributed over 75 countries.
Analysis of Fatty Acid Composition of Thevetia peruviana and Hura crepitans Seed oils using GC-FID

Fatty acid mixtures were extracted from Thevetia peruviana and Hura crepitans seed oils. The quantitative determination of fatty acid composition was carried out for each sample by methylation and application of gas chromatograph (GC-FID). The predominant fatty acids in the T. peruviana and H. crepitans are palmitic acid (16:0) (19.10% and 21.67%), stearic acid (18:0) (7.31% and 9.66%), Oleic acid (18:1) (53.40% and 26.91%) and Linoleic acid (18:2) (19.03% and 36.61%) respectively. In the two oils, the ratios of unsaturated fatty acid were very high about 72% for T. peruviana and 62 % for H. crepitans which is an indication that both would be very good sources of oleochemicals for polymer and other industries. This study was to evaluate the fatty acid compositions of the two seeds oil using FT-IR and GC-FID spectrometer.
Comparison of the allelopathic potential of four marsh species.

BONASERA, J., J. LYNCH, anid M. A. LECK. (Biol. Dept., Rider Coll., Lawreiieeville, New Jersey 08648). Comparison of the allelopathic potential of four miiarsh species. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 106: 217-222. 1979. -A study of allelopathic potential of four species and three soils frolmi a New Jersey freshwater tidal mnarsh was imiade using four bioassay species. Ambrosia trifida leafancd Peltandra virginica leafancd petiole-extracts almost universally decreased germiiination and root growth of lettuce, radish, tomato, and cucumber. Ambrosia stern-extract inhibited growth but not germination. Bidens llaevis leafextract was generally inihibitory, but Bidens stemii-extract only inhibited germnination and growth of lettuce. Typha latifolia leaf-extract was inhibitory to growth, and to radish germination at 24 hrs. Typha rootancd rhizonme-extracts were the least inhibitory. The marsh soils from cattail, ragwveed, anld mnixed vegetation sites at 0 to 5 anid 5 to 10 cm had no effect onl germination of radish or cueumber. Cattail 0 to 5 em soil-extract enhanced cucumber growth at 72 hr aiid radish growvth at 48 hr. Of the bioassay species, lettuce was the most sensitive, radish ancd tomato someewhat less seiisitive, and cucumber the least sensitive.
Mechanisms controlling TGF-Ø superfamily-induced cellular responses

We have characterized a 60 kDa transforming growth factor-^ (TGF-P) binding protein that was originally identified on LNCaP adenocarcinoma prostate cells by affinity cross-linking of cell surface proteins using 125I-TGF-^1. Binding of 125I-TGF-^1 to the 60 kDa protein was competed by an excess of unlabeled TGF-^1, but not by TGF-^2, TGF-^3, activin or osteogenic protein-1 (OP125 1), also termed bone morphogenetic protein-7 (BMP-7). In addition, no binding of I-TGF-^2 and 125I-TGF-^3 to the 60 kDa binding protein on LNCaP cells could be demonstrated using affinity labeling techniques. The 60 kDa TGF-P binding protein showed no immunoreactivity with antibodies against the known type I and type II receptors for members of the TGF-P superfamily. Treatment of LNCaP cells with 0.25 M NaCl, 1 ^g/ml heparin or 10% glycerol caused a release of the 60 kDa protein from the cell surface. In addition, we found that the previously described TGF-P type IV receptor on GH3 cells, which does not form a heteromeric complex with TGF-P receptors, could be released from the cell surface by these same treatments. This suggests that the 60 kDa protein and the similarly sized TGF-P type IV receptor are related proteins. The eluted 60 kDa LNCaP protein was shown to interfere with the binding of TGF-P to the TGF-P receptors. Thus, the cell surface-associated 60 kDa TGF-P binding protein may play a role in regulating TGF-P binding to TGF-P receptors.
Logical intuitions and heuristic reflections : rethinking the role of intuition in probability judgements

This thesis aims to further our understanding of the role that intuition plays in human reasoning when making probability judgements. It attempts to: a) gain a better understanding of the cognitive processes underlying these judgements, b) determine how individual differences impacts the logicality of these judgements, and c) test original and theoretically-driven ways to increase logical intuitions in probability judgements. Classically, it is assumed that people make biased judgements because they rely on an intuitive thinking system (System 1) and apply the representativeness heuristic to make conjunctive probability judgements. In contrast, logical judgements are assumed to arise from the use of deliberation (System 2) to overrule the prepotent heuristic response and replace it with a logical one. Recent research; however, has challenged this claim and instead proposes that our intuitions do not always lead us astray. In fact, they can reflect a sensitivity to logic that is implicit, and potentially happens automatically and outside of awareness. This thesis takes this notion one step further and asks whether it is the slower, more deliberative, thinking system which may be vulnerable to prior beliefs and biases. A series of five experiments examined the relative impact of heuristic and logical considerations on probability judgements. The results indicated that people are readily able to detect the conflict underlying intuitive and deliberative assessments, and that people effortlessly engage in deliberative processing, which suggests they are not simply cognitive misers who fail to reason in line with the principles of logic because they either lack the cognitive ability or the motivation to do so. The results also supported the idea that people can intuit logical judgements (i.e., judgements in accordance with the laws of probability) when they rely on System 1 thinking; however, when they deliberate or use System 2 thinking, that is when the heuristic biases their judgements.
Analisis Pengaruh Efikasi Diri Terhadap Keinginan Berpindah Kerja Dengan Kepuasan Kerja Sebagai Variabel Pemediasi

This study was aimed to test the influence of self efficacy toward job turnover intention with job satisfaction as intervening variable. The sample was 218 auditor independent in Indonesia. The result of this study showed that self-efficacy positively influence toward job satisfaction and job turnover intention, and job satisfaction negatively influence toward job turnover intention. On the third result contrast with Bandura theory (1997) that suggest people who have strong self efficacy will have positive value toward their jobs. While in this study found that people who have strong self efficacy, they will have high job turnover intention. This study found that auditors who work in auditor company have high interest to look for a better job chance and challenge of their career.