Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of different priming treatments on seed quality of delinted desi cotton (Gossypium arboreum L.) varieties picked at different intervals after fifteen months of controlled storage

The present study was carried out in the Department of Seed Science and Technology Section, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India. The study aimed to evaluate the effect of seed invigoration treatments on seed quality of desi cotton varieties (HD-123, HD-324 and HD-432) picked at different intervals and stored at 20 C with six per cent moisture content in sealed plastic containers. Study evaluated the effect of different seed priming treatments on germination, seedling length, seedling dry weight, vigor indices desi cotton varieties (HD-123, HD-324 and HD-432) to determine and exploit their usefulness in improving cotton seed quality for better seedling establishment. Seed ageing or progressin storage period led to reduction in seed quality, during storage as there is reduction in seed vigor potential and performance, stand establishment, poor emergence and high seedling mortality, thus leading to poor crop stand. Improvement in germination by seed priming may combat this problem as this physiological technique results in faster and synchronous seed germination as found in the study that when cotton seeds were primed for two hr. at 25 C with different chemicals (Control, KH2PO4, KNO3, PEG, GA3, HydrationDehydration) showed increase in seed germination per cent. It was found that seeds primed with GA3 significantly enhances the seed germination per cent, seedling length, seedling dry weight, vigor indices than other treatments (KNO3, KH2PO4, PEG, Hydration). Maximum germination, seedling length, dry weight, vigor indices, seedling establishment, field emergence index was observed in seeds of second pick treated seeds whereas minimum was observed in third pick seeds.
Aims : To determine the prevalence of traumatic dental injuries in the anteriorsegment and associated risk factors for 9-12 years old school children in

Aims: To determine the prevalence of traumatic dental injuries in the anteriorsegment and associated risk factors for 9-12 years old school children in Wad-Madani locality, Al-Gazira state, Sudan. Material and method: A cross-sectional school base study for six hundred and eighty 9-12 years old school children (boys and girls) selected randomly from 25 basic schools. Andresen’s criteria were used to record traumatic dental injuries by visual examination and no radiographs were taken. Associated risk factors were assessed (age, gender, over jet and lip Competency). Chi-square test was used to test association between the different variables. P-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The prevalence of traumatic dental injuries was 9.1%. Boys experienced more injuries than girls 1:2.2. Enamel fracture (63%) was most common types followed by enamel and dentine fracture (27%). The maxillary central incisor was the most common affected tooth (79.7%). Collisions were the main cause of trauma and home the most common place. Most of the traumatized teeth were not treated. The high percentage of traumatized teeth associated with increased over jet (P=0.000) and inadequate upper lip coverage (P=0.000). Conclusion: The present study revealed a relatively low prevalence of dental trauma, but still high when compared with literature. Significant association between dental trauma and associated factors (age, gender, overjet and lip Competency) were found. Educational programs should be initiated for the community regarding causes, prevention and treatment of traumatic dental injuries is mandatory to elaborate preventive strategies and efficient treatment plans. *Corresponding author: Amal H. Abuaffan, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Orthodontic, Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Khartoum, Khartoum-1719, Sudan, Tel: 00249-912696035, 00249927202131; E-mail : amalabuaffan@yahoo.com
The Sources of Job Stress among Project Managers

Organizational stress and workplace health have become an issue of great concern over the last decade. Although some workplace stress is normal, but among project manager is excessive. Project managers are considered as the key persons and one of the most important elements of any project, and their performance highly influences on the overall success of the project. Due to the nature of their work, they tended to face a multitude of stressors that always interfere with their productivity and impact their physical and emotional health. Current study focuses on “job stress” as one of the main factors affecting project managers’ performance. Within this research, preliminarily time pressure, workload, limited resources, limited authority and conflict were studied as the main sources of job stress among project managers. Furthermore, and after conducting a pilot study, some other factors were identified and added to the initial five factors. Eventually, the main survey focuses on twelve (12) sources of stress that was carried out among thirty (30) international project managers; and eleven (11) factors were introduced as the most important sources of stress among project managers. Keywords: Job stress among project manager; conflict at workplace; sources of job stress
Predicting spam videos using predictive analysis.

: Social networking has become a popular way for users to meet and interact online. Users spend a significant amount of time on popular social network platforms (such as Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter), storing and sharing personal information. This information, also attracts the interest of cybercriminals. There has been a lot of development regarding spam detection in the recent times. This paper tries to address, if there is a way to leave off a video in a social video platform without checking if it is spam or not. That is, predicting if it is spam or not.
MENARCHEAL AGE OF SCHOOL GIRLS AT HOLY MAKKAH DISTR ICT

This was a cross-sectional anthropometric study car ried out among female students at intermediate and secondary schools at Makkah Al-Mukarramah district. The main m of this study was to determine the age of onset of menarche among these students and the relation of menarcheal ag to anthropometric measurements represented by weight, height, and body mass index. The study revolving around 200 female students within the age range of 12 to 16 y ears. The study procedure consisted of collecting the dat a by way of anthropometric parameters and interview questionnaire. In this study the mean age at menarche was found to be 12.1 ± 1.1 year. The study revealed that menarc he o curred at an earlier age in comparison to the last three decades worldwide. This is actually consistent with simila r studies done recently. This earlier menarcheal age among the participants in our study may be justified by improvement in liv ing conditions and prosperity of socio-economic status at Makkah AL-Mu karramah district.
ISOLATION, IDENTIFICATION AND ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY PATTERN OF BACTERIA ASSOCIATED WITH URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS (UTIs) IN PREGNANT WOMEN ATTENDING ANTE- NATAL CARE AT REGINA-CAELI HOSPITAL AND MATERNITY AWKA, ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most frequently seen medical conditions in pregnancy with its attendant complications. This study investigated the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of bacteria associated with urinary tract infections among pregnant women attending ante-natal care in Regina-Caeli Hospital and Maternity, and also identified the isolated aetiologic bacteria. A total of 53 clean voided mid-stream urine samples were collected from pregnant women between the ages of 18–49 years and cultured on Cystine Lactose Electrolyte Deficient (CLED) agar using streaking culture techniques. The pure colonies were identified based on colonial morphology, microscopic characteristics, and biochemical tests. The susceptibility pattern of the isolates to common antibiotics was also determined using the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion techniques. Results showed that among the samples analyzed, 30 bacterial isolates were recovered with Escherichia coli 20 (66.6 %) being the most predominant, followed by Staphylococcus saprophyticus 6 (20.0 %), Klebsiella spp 2 (6.6 %) and Proteus spp 2 (6.6 %). The overall antibiotic susceptibility test revealed that all the Gram negative bacteria isolated were resistant to chloramphenicol, sparflox, ampicillin and tarivid while streptomycin showed a pronounced activity against Proteus sp with an inhibition zone World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research SJIF Impact Factor 6.805 Volume 5, Issue 3, 215-226. Research Article ISSN 2277– 7105
Gender Difference on Factors Affecting Academic Achievement: The Case of General Secondary School Students of Aksum Town

Since the implementation of the New Education and Training Policy (1994) of Ethiopia, among various strategies, affirmative action is being implemented to increase females’ academic performance and minimize their attrition rates on the underlying assumption that differences are attributed to socially constructed factors. But, regardless of the presences of various contrasting research findings, in the context where the study was conducted, research based findings concerning the factors contributing to gender difference in academic performance were lacking. Hence, the main objective of this study was to analyze gender difference in relation to factors (academic self-concept, study habit, and SES) that affect academic achievement of students. To this effect, survey (an ex-post facto) design was used, in the sense that the researchers do not have direct control over the independent variables. To maintain gender balance of the sample subjects, stratified random sampling followed by simple random sampling technique was employed. A self-report Likert scale questionnaire and structured interview schedule were used. The computed alpha reliability coefficient for the scales: academic self-concept and study habit were . 80 and . 83, respectively. Analysis was made on the data obtained from a sample size of 350 students (186 female and 164 male) drown from the target population of 5235 students and percentage, chi-square, t-test, and ANOVA were the statistical techniques used. Consequently, most students were found to have been experiencing poor study habit, low academic self-concept, and low academic achievement. No significant gender difference was observed in academic self-concept, study habit, math and science performance. The variables: study habit, academic self-concept, and perceived level of poverty were found to have significant main effects on academic achievement. Hence, the study has implied the need to shift from emphasis on gender difference to the provision of intervention mechanisms to both male and female students so as to maximize the students’ imperative experience of the factors affecting academic achievement.
Effect Of Polygamy With Selection In Genetic Algorithms

— Genetic algorithms are based on evolutionary ideas of natural selection and genetics. Important operators used in GA are selection, crossover and mutation, where selection operator is used to select the individuals from a population to create a mating pool which will participate in reproduction process. A number of selection operators have been used in the past like roulette wheel selection, ranked selection, elitism etc. where elitism is used to enforce the preservation of best solution found so far unless a new best individual is discovered. Elitism is implemented by copying the best individual of a generation into the next generation without any change. In this paper a particular form of elitism, polygamy, is proposed and implemented in which in each generation the best individual is selected and that participates in crossover with all other individuals in the mating pool created by any other selection mechanism. Polygamy has also been observed in a number of animals like lion, elk, baboons etc. Results obtained show the improvement over traditional selection operators available in literature.
Haematological and Serum Characteristics of Broiler Birds Fed Diets Supplemented with Varying Levels of Selenium Powder

The haematology and serum components of broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with selenium powder was investigated. A total of one hundred and fifty day old broilers were randomly allotted to three dietary treatments with ten birds per replicate in a completely randomized design. Treatment 1 was control with no Selenium supplementation, Treatments 2 and 3 had 0.3mg/kg 0.5mg/kg Selenium supplementation respectively. Birds were vaccinated as schedule and acclimatized to rearing and feeding regime before data collection commenced. Result indicated differences (P<0.05) in the final bodyweight and total weight gain of the experimental birds. Feed conversion ratio of birds on high selenium (0.5mg) was superior that its counterparts in control and 0.3mg supplementation. The heamatological and serum characteristics were not significantly affected (P<0.05) across the treatments except the differential count of the blood. The activity of the blood enzymes measured increase with selenium supplementation whereas the cholesterol level fall significantly in birds fed selenium supplemented diets. The study showed that all the dietary inclusion satisfactory as feed for broiler chicken without any deleterious effect on performance and blood profile. Inclusion level of 0.5mm/kg of selenium appeared to have better overall performance when fed to broiler chicken. Keywords : selenium, broilers, haematology, serum
A description of the pattern of rational drug use in Ghana Police Hospital

Irrational use of drugs is a widespread problem at all levels of care, and results in increased mortality, morbidity, adverse drug reactions, poor patient outcomes and wastage of scarce resources. The main objective of the study was to investigate the pattern of rational drug use in the Ghana Police Hospital. Based on World Health Organization (WHO) core indicators of rationale drug use, prescribing data were obtained from 120 outpatients’ records from January-July in 2009. Patient and health facility indicators were obtained by interviewing 100 outpatients and 9 prescribers. Data was analysed with an excel software program. Average number of drugs per patient encounter was 3.7. Of the 446 prescribed drugs identified within study period, 24.2% of encounters received all their medications, 12.5% did not receive any of their prescribed medications while 62.6 % were prescribed by their generic names. Percentage of encounters with injection and antibiotics were 8.3% and 11.9% respectively. Average consulting and dispensing time were observed to be 8 and 1.52 minutes respectively. Percentage of patients who knew the correct drug dosage schedule they received was 62.5%. Percentage of key drugs and treatment guidelines availability were 75.8% and 77.8% respectively. Rational drug use and drug availability at the Hospital was not satisfactory. Adequate drug funding to ensure availability of essential medicines and education of stakeholders is vital to improve the situation.
Evaluation of benign ovarian tumours in a tertiary care centre

Objective: Present study was done to analyse the distribution of benign ovarian tumours in different age groups and to correlate their clinic-histopathological patterns. Materials and Method: In present retrospective study histopathologically proven 63 cases of benign ovarian tumours were analysed. The tumours were classified according to WHO classification after thorough examination of slides and their distribution in different age groups was noted. Results: Surface epithelial tumours were commonest (65.08%) followed by germ cell tumours (26.97%) and sex cord stromal tumours(7.95%). Maximum 34.93% ovarian tumours were found in 31-40 years age group. Most of the patients (33.34%) were asymptomatic and were diagnosed incidentally. Commonest tumour was serous cystadenoma (38.09%) followed by mucinous cystadenoma (25.389%) and benign cystic teratoma (17.45%). Conclusion: Ovarian tumours are common in forth decade. Most common histopathological presentation was surface epithelial tumours with preponderance of serous cystadenomas. Most of them remain asymptomatic, therefore clinicohistopathological diagnosis still remains gold standard which is helpful for early detection and proper management. Keywords: Benign ovarian tumours, Histopathology, Surface epithelial tumours, Germ cell tumours, Sex cord stromal tumours
A Comparative Study of Pulmonary Function Tests between Normal Male Sedentary and Tennis Players

Background: In the assessment of the respiratory system, pulmonary function tests (PFTs) have achieved a lot of importance nowadays due to an increase in the cardiorespiratory disease and to a steep rise in air pollution. These functional tests and their parameters tend to have a relationship with lifestyle such as regular exercise and non-exercise. Hence, the present study was undertaken to assess the effects of exercise in tennis players on the respiratory system which are compared with normal healthy sedentary individuals. Aim of the Study: The aim of this study was to determine and compare the differences between the pulmonary functions of healthy individuals playing regular tennis for 2 h daily and normal sedentary individuals. The Objective of the Study: The study included 39 tennis players playing regular tennis for 2 h and 37 normal sedentary individuals who are not interested in any sports or games actively. Materials and Methods: PFTs such as forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), peak expiratory flow (PEF), VC, and maximum voluntary ventilation (MVV) of the study group were included in the study. The results were analyzed with standard spirometer. The arithmetic means and standard deviations of data have been obtained in the statistical evaluation. As a result of the findings obtained, independent sample t-test has been applied. Observations and Results: No significant difference has been found among the age, height, body weight, body mass index, FEV1, and PEF values of the groups at the end of the test (P > 0.05); however, a significant difference has been found among MVV, FVC, and VC values. Conclusions: Final analysis of the study showed that no difference is present between the FEV1 and PEF values of tennis players who have long-term and regular exercises and sedentary individuals. However, there is a significant difference among MVV, FVC, and VC values between the two groups. Therefore, it has been found that the pulmonary capacities (MVV, FVC, and VC) of individuals having regular exercises have higher values than that of sedentary individuals.
The Effectiveness of Commonly used Antiseptics against Bacteria Isolated from environmental samples of the three Educational Hospitals in Hamedan city

Nosocomical infections (NI) is considered as a major problem in healthcare around the world, as it increases hospital stay and health care cost. Incorrect using of disinfectants and antiseptics in hospitals is considered to be an important factor in development of NI. In the present study, the prevalence of different bacteria in 384 samples collected from three education hospitals of Hamedan city was identified, and based on the mood of the effectiveness (poor, intermediate and strong), the antibacterial activity of some commonly used antiseptics were investigated. Antiseptics were including; Sidex, Sodium Hypochlorit, Kereolin 2.5%, Hygiene 1%, Betadine, Savlon 3.2%, Chlorohexedine 1%, Deconex, Halmid and Microton. Our results showed that from total samples, 253 cases (65.88 %) were bacterial positive cultures, which was indicative of a high rate of bacterial infection in investigated hospitals. Staphylococcus epidermidis, Escherichia coli, Klebsiell were three most prevalent bacteria. A table containing the information on the most effective antiseptics against each bacteria and the percentage of influenced population from the overall bacterial population was provided. In conclusion, our findings provides a suitable basis for selecting the usual antiseptics in routine disinfection procedures and suggest that permanent identification of bacterial population is a useful activity in reduction of nosocomia;l infections.
Skip Graph in Distributed Environments: A Review

: As we see that the world has become closer and faster and with the enormous growth of distributed networks like p2p, social networks, overlay networks, cloud computing etc. Theses Distributed networks are represented as graphs and the fundamental component of distributed network is the relationship defined by linkages among units or nodes in the network. Major concern for computer experts is how to store such enormous amount of data especially in form of graphs. There is a need for efficient data structure used for storage of such type of data should provide efficient format for fast retrieval of data as and when required, in this types of networks. Although adjacency matrix is an effective technique to represent a graph having few or large number of nodes and vertices but when it comes to analysis of huge amount of data from site likes like face book or twitter, adjacency matrix cannot do this. In this paper, we study the existing application of a special kind of data structure, skip graph with its various versions which can be efficiently used for storing such type of data resulting in optimal storage, space utilization retrieval and concurrency.
Treatment with folic acid ameliorated the histological and immunohistochemical alterations caused by propylthiouracil –induced hypothyroid rat aorta

Thyroid status is an important determinant of cardiovascular function. We studied the changes in the aorta of hypothyroid rat at the post-pubertal stage, in addition to the ameliorating role of folic acid. Fifty male albino rats were equally divided into five groups; the first and second groups were the control and folic acid groups, respectively while the third group was the hypothyroid group in which rats received 6-n-propyl thiouracil (PTU) in drinking water for 6 weeks to induce hypothyroidism. The fourth and fifth groups were co – and post hypothyroid rats treated with folic acid for four weeks. Aorta in hypothyroid rats revealed normal histological structure except the layer of tunica media where compressed with elongated nuclei and less in thickens than that of the control groups. The eNOS label index was significantly decreased in hypothyroid rats and their levels were significantly increased in coand post treated hypothyroid rats when compared with hypothyroid rats. The current study indicated that, folic acid as a treatment was better if it is administered as an adjuvant after returning to the euthyroid state. Treatment of hypothyroidism with folic acid improved the histopathological alternation and depresses the intensity of eNOS immunoreactive cells demonstrating the recovery of some injury. [Wafaa Ibrahim; Maha Abo Gazia; Afaf El-Atrash; Ahmed Massoud; Ehab Tousson; and Heba AbouHargaAmeliorative effect of folic acid on propylthiouracil-induced histological and immunohistochemical alterations in aorta of albino rats. Journal of American Science 2012; 8(2):633-638]. (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.americanscience. org. 88