Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Examining the Relationship between Marketing Capability and Innovation

The need for organizations to innovate comes from increasing competition and customer demands and new market areas. In today’s complex and turbulent environment the need for innovation in products and processes is widely recognised. For firms competing in a global market place, innovations play an increasingly vital role in achieving superior performance. Marketing capability is considered to be an important factor to innovation and enhance competitive advantage of firms. The present paper intended to study the relationship between marketing capability and innovation. The study was conducted through descriptive-applied method and standard questionnaire was tool of data collection. The statistical population included 80 managers of stone and mining industry in Isfahan that among whom 70 persons were studied as research sample using Cochran formula. The results revealed that there is a positive and significant relationship between marketing capability and innovation.
Research Article Profile of Pre Lacteal Feeding, Exclusive and Continued Breast Feeding Practices among Families in Rural Community of Pondicherry

The practice of pre lacteal feeding, duration of exclusive and continued breast feeding are widely prevalent in different parts of the country and there are many determining and associated factors responsible for it. It is necessary to find the prevalence of such practice at periodic intervals in the community. To investigate the prevalence of pre lacteal feeding, analyse the exclusive and continued breast feeding practices among families in the rural area of Pondicherry. A descriptive, community based, cross sectional and quantitative study was conducted during the year 2014 among the 350 families residing in the rural area using the semi open ended questionnaire by direct interview at their doorsteps. Proportion, mean, median, standard deviation, chi square test were applied using SPSS statistical software version 18. The prevalence rate of pre lacteal feeding and exclusive breast feeding was 48% and 71% respectively. The mean duration of exclusive breast feeding was 5.9+3 (median 5.1 months) and continued breast feeding was 15.2+3.5 months (median 14). The differences in prevalence rates and mean duration of breast feeding were negligible with various associated factors. Conclusion: The practice of pre lacteal feeding practice among half of the newborn children and exclusive breast feeding was less than three fourth of the infants. It is necessary to create awareness to stop pre lacteal feeding to the newborns and promote exclusive breast feeding in intensive was within their cultural acceptance.
EVALUATION OF ANTIHYPERLIPIDEMIC ACTIVITY OF LEAVES OF PORTULACA OLERACEA LINN AGAINST DEXAMETHASONE INDUCED HYPERLIPIDEMIA IN RATS

Medicinal plants play pivotal role in preventing various disease. Hyper lipidemia is a major contributor to pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus. Portulaca oleracea Linn belonging to the family Portulacaceae. P oleracea is an herbaceous weed with many pharmacological activities like anti inflammatory, antibacterial, antiplasmodial activity. Objective: The present study is an attempt to investigate its antihyperlipidemic activity as mentioned in siddha literature.
Isolation and characterization of D- Isolation and characterization of D-galactose, N- acetylgalactosamine, fructose, maltose specific lectin from eight different endophytic fungi of Viscum albumL

Eight different endophytic fungus was isolated and identified from the various parts of Viscum album, lectin was isolated from all the endophytic fungal sample and host Viscum album. Lectin isolated was blood group specific lectin agglutinating A+ve erythrocytes. Carbohydrate specificity of lectin was varied, Aspergillus flavus, Fusarium moniliforme, Fusarium oxysporum, Trichothecium sp, and Viscum album lectin was D-galactose and N-acetyl glucosamine specific lectin, Alternaria sp and Pencillium sp lectin was fructose specific lectin, Aspergillus niger and Cladosporium sp was Maltose and D-galactose specific lectin. Biochemical characterization of lectin showed that metal chelating agent EDTA has no effect on the hemaglutinating activity of Viscum album, Aspergillus flavus, Alternearia sp, Fusarium oxysporum, Trichothecium sp, lectin but EDTA inhibited the hemaglutinating activity of Pencillium sp, Cladosporium sp, Aspergillus niger lectin, activity was restored by adding divalent cations Mg2+, Mn2+. pH sensitive profile shows that lectin of Viscum album and its all endophytic fungal lectin retained the hemagglutinating activity with in the pH range 6-9, Viscum album and Aspergillus niger, Cladosporium sp, Fusarium moniliforme lectin was thermostable up to 600C, Aspergillus flavus ,Alternearia sp, Fusarium oxysporum, Trichothecium sp lectin was stable upto 500C. SDS PAGE of Aspergillus flavus, Fusarium moniliforme, Fusarium oxysporum, Trichothecium sp, D-galactose and N-acetyl glucosamine specific lectin showed the presence of 64kD protein similar to Viscum album lectin, PAS staining assay confirmed the presence of lectin in all endophytic fungal samples.
Effects of sesame oil and olive oil on the plasma total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein and high density lipoprotein cholesterol of guineapig

High cholesterol poses a threat to our heart. The levels of cholesterol are highly dependent on what and how much of fatty food we eat. It is a well-known fact that some dietary component increase cholesterol levels in our blood, while others help to decrease cholesterol levels when we eat them with our diet. Propose study was to examine the effects of combined sesame and olive oil as a dietary supplement on hypercholesterolemia Guinea pig for a period of 60 days. When cholesterol elevating food was given to normal Guinea pig first resulted in an increase of plasma total cholesterol by 33.63%, plasma high density lipoprotein cholesterol by 76.76% and plasma low density lipoprotein cholesterol by 61.68%. Administration of sesame and olive oil to hypercholesterolemia Guinea pigs, total plasma cholesterol levels were declined by 19.55%, plasma high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels by 17.79% and plasma low density lipoprotein cholesterol by 32.93%. These beneficial effects of sesame and olive oil on hypercholesterolemic Guinea pigs appeared to be due to its oleic acid, palmitic acid, linoleic acid, sesamol, sesaminol, fiber, flavonoid content which enhancing the cholesterol excretion, bile acid production and inhibit oxidation of low density lipoprotein cholesterol. The sesame and olive oil are especially rich in mono-unsaturated fatty acids like linoleic acid; oleic acid and palmitic acid which are absorbed in the blood stream and liberated out un-wanted cholesterol. On the other hand, Sesamol and sesaminol are phenolic antioxidants. Antioxidants are known to reduce oxidation of low density lipoprotein cholesterol. Thus the combination of sesame and olive oils are thought to be helpful in maintaining good health or strong heart.
EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT AND JOB SATISFACTION: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF MANUFACTURING SECTOR

This Paper presents a relationship and impact of employee empowerment on job satisfaction. The Purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between employee empowerment and job satisfaction in manufacturing industry. This study examines the difference between empowerment level and job satisfaction level of male and female employees. The questionnaire comprising 54 statements was used for collection of data and questionnaires were distributed among 200 employees of manufacturing industry in Haridwar city only.157 questionnaire were found to be useable. SPSS was used for analysis. Results indicate that employee empowerment had positive and significant impact on job satisfaction. The results also confirm a significant difference between male and female employees’ empowerment level and job satisfaction level. According to analysis male employees are more satisfied from their jobs as compared to female employees.
Liquidity, Solvency and Profitability Analysis Using Cash Flow Ratios and Traditional Ratios: The Telecommunication Sector in Sri Lanka.

This study examines the performance of Dialog Axiata PLC and Sri Lanka Telecom PLC by employing both cash flow ratios and traditional financial ratios over the past five years. Using the financial statements from Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) website, independent sample t-tests were used for the analysis. The performance of Dialog Axiata PLC and Sri Lanka Telecom PLC was measured using liquidity, solvency, and operational efficiency indicators. Results show that traditional ratios generated different results from cash flow ratios in liquidity, Solvency and Profitability. Sri Lanka Telecom PLC was found to have significantly higher solvency ratios than Dialog Axiata PLC, indicating a possibility that the difference may be caused by the type of ownership. Keywords : Liquidity ratios, cash flow ratios, Solvency ratios, efficiency ratios and financial statement analysis.
BANK CREDIT RISK AND INTEREST RATE VOLATILITY- GRANGER CAUSALITY VS. VAR-GARCH APPROACH

The study develops VAR-GARCH models with Granger causality framework to examine the direction of causality flows, information transmission and trade-off between credit risk and interest rate volatility, using time series data collected from the CBN statistical bulletin and the annual accounting reports of deposit money banks for a period of 1981 to 2011. Our findings show that there is zero causality between credit risk and interest rate volatility; also, a transmission mechanism or a “pass through” is not found between the two variables. However, the two variables maintain non-monotonic relationship for the specified period.
Assessment of DNA Sensitivity and Heat Stress Protein Response (HSP70) in Male Wistar Rat Blood After Exposure to Microwave Radiation

Because of the increasing use of mobile phones, the possible risks of non-ionizing radiofrequency of electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) adverse effects on human health was evaluated. The present study aims to assess possible DNA damaging effects induced by microwave radiation of mobile phone type in male Wistar rat blood in vivo. A number of 30 male Wistar rats (118±20g) was divided into 3 groups (10 animals in each group) exposed for (15, 30 and 60 min.) to a working Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) cell phone rated at a frequency of 900 MHz, at non-thermal specific absorption rate (SAR) of 2.9 W/Kg. Concurrent control animals (n=10) were also included in the study. After the exposure periods five animals from each group were sacrificed immediately while the other five animals were sacrificed after 7 days (recovery period). DNA sensitivity in rat blood leukocytes was assessed by using the alkaline comet assay method. The heat shock protein stress response (HSP70) in serum samples of the rats was also investigated. The results showed significant increased DNA damage in blood leukocytes after the exposure times 15 and 30 min and after the three exposure times of the recovery period (7 days) as detected by the comet assay method. Serum HSP70 levels were also significantly increased in the exposed animals and in the animals at the recovery period as compared to the control animals. The present study indicates that RF-EMF represents a potential DNA-damaging hazards and using the alkaline comet assay is a sensitive tool in the measurement of DNA damage after exposure to 900 MHz microwave radiation in vivo. The increased HSP70 stress response to RF-EMF exposure might involved in protecting cells from DNA damage induced by microwave radiation. [Journal of American Science. 2010;6(10):218-225]. (ISSN: 1545-1003).
The Relationship between Traumatic Experience, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth among Adolescents in Gaza Strip

Exposure to trauma is an overwhelming experience for those who witnessed or affected by trauma and can have severe and chronic psychological consequences. Trauma is a psychologically distressing event outside the range of usual human experience, often involves a sense of fear, terror and helplessness [1]. Trauma refers to how individuals emotionally react to terrible events, such as the sudden loss of loved one, natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, floods, or hurricanes), serious accidents (e.g., car crashes), physical or sexual assault (e.g., being battered or raped), domestic violence, wars, or political violence [2].
Prevalence and Measure of Self Medication: A Review

Self-medication is the use of medicines by the people on their own inventiveness or on the suggestion of a friend, family member or lay persons without consulting a qualified health care professional. People use medicines for prevention, cure, diagnosis and management of diseases and sometimes this use may be unnecessary (drugs misused and abused for pleasure, addiction and sex purposes). Self-medication is an element of self care and is recognized by WHO in certain conditions, which seems useful in reducing the burdens of already overloaded health care systems especially in developing countries like Pakistan. There is a great communal and professional concern about the irrational use of drugs. Unbridled self medication may result in unforeseen clinical eventualities. In Pakistan, easy access to a wide range of drugs without prescription at various sale points coupled with inadequate health care services and socioeconomic factors result in increased proportions of drugs used as self-medication compared to prescribed drugs. This issue needs to be focused on by the responsible authorities. This review article focuses on the prevalence, measures, benefits, hazards and various factors leading to self medication.
Impulsive Synchronization of Lorenz Systems by the

This paper studies impulsive synchronization of two Lorenz systems. An impulsive control scheme which considers transmission delay in chaos-based secure communication is presented. Sufficient conditions for the globally exponential stabilization of impulsive synchronization of two Lorenz systems are established by employing the Lyapunov-Razumikhin method. Upper bounds of the length and strength of the impulsive control are presented. Simulation results are discussed to illustrate the theorems.
Codebook Based Vector Quantization Technique for Song-to-Song Retrieval

: Digital music is widely used now-a-days. The systems are required for user to find the music the need. The attention has been an increasing on learning feature representations from audio data used in various MIR problems. The key element for relevant retrieval is the audio content representation. Good representation should be short, terse, efficient, and easy and fast to compute. The Bag-of-Frames (BoF) approach is evaluated. In this approach, low-level MFCC and PLP features are explored from the audio signal of songs. The encoding stage is added with pre-computed codebook and pooling stage gives compact representation for the feature vector. A Vector Quantization (VQ) encoding method using Online Dictionary Learning (ODL) algorithm performs well in query-by-example task of MIR to decrease the runtime of relevant retrieval. Experimental result shows that PLP performs better than MFCC.
DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS IN PLHIV PATIENTS BY USING THE XPERT® MTB/RIF ASSAY: A CLINICAL STUDY

Objective: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the commonest opportunistic infection and the leading cause of death in HIV patients in developing countries. HIV infection is a well recognised risk factor for both activation of initial infection and reactivation of latent infection. This study was done to find out the co-prevalence and the trend of HIV infection among tuberculosis patients and to determine the prevalence of MDR Tuberculosis in HIV positive patients using Xpert MTB/RIF assay (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA, United States). Materials and Methods: The sputum samples are received from Indore M.P, India. Sputum samples of the patients with symptoms suggestive of pulmonary tuberculosis including both new cases and on treatment are received from the various DMCs and hospitals. Sputum specimen was processed for TB detection by Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification testing (CB-NAAT) using Xpert MTB/RiF assay technology. Results: The study period is from 2015 to August 2016. A total of 4595 patients with symptoms suggestive of pulmonary tuberculosis including both new cases and on treatment. Out of these patients 1087 were reported MTB detected. Out of these 4595 patients 953 were reported HIV positive and out of 953 patients 127(13.3%) were reported positive for (HIV +TUBERCULOSIS). Of these 127 cases 118(92.9%) cases were sensitive to rifampicin (RIF) and 9(7%) cases were showing resistance to rifampicin (RIF) Drug. Conclusion: Co-existence of HIV and tuberculosis is high and there is high Prevalence of MDR tuberculosis in HIV patients.
Tigernut-Soy Milk Drink: Preparation, Proximate Composition and Sensory Qualities

Tigernuts (Cyperus esculentus L.) and soybeans (Glycine max M) were processed into natural fresh Tigernut-Soy Milk Drink, TSMD (50:50) %, fresh Tigernut Milk Drink, TMD (100%) and Soymilk Drink, SMD (100%). These were evaluated for their proximate and sensory quality potentials and for possible consumption as a dessert. The milk drinks were analysed for the total energy, pH, crude protein, fat, carbohydrate, ash, crude fibre and moisture contents. The results revealed a reasonable amount of protein content of 7.95, 7.10 and 4.50% for the milk of tigernutsoy, tigernut and soybean respectively. Proximate composition showed that tigernut-soy milk blend had higher protein (7.95%) and fat (27.22%) but low pH (6.1) than soymilk and tigernut milk. Soymilk had less protein (4.50%) than tigernut milk and the blend. All the samples had high moisture content which ranged from 57.3480. 34%. Significant difference (p<0.05) existed in sensory scores of mouth feel, colour and aroma, but there was no significant (p>0.05) difference in taste and overall acceptability; although all the samples were generally accepted in terms of sensory quality. It was concluded that milk from tiger-nut and soybean be encouraged due to the high nutrient contents (protein, fat, etc) so as to solve the problem of protein– calorie malnutrition.
Identifying the effective factors on delighting the retail banking customers with a focus on employees and customers (Keshavarzi bank of Tehran city)

Current research was carried out with the purpose of identifying the solutions of delighting the retail banking customers. This research is descriptive-survey which has been carried out with correlation method and in terms of purpose, it is practical. The statistical population of this research for responding to the questions of questionnaire includes the customers of Keshavarzi retail bank in Tehran city in spring and summer, 2015. Stratified random sampling has been carried out among the customers of Keshavarzi bank. The tools used in this research are the researcher-made questionnaire for assessment of delight rate of the bank customers, researcher-made questionnaire of effective factors on delighting the customers and information form of demographics. Apparent and content validity of the questionnaire was studied and confirmed by management professors. In order to study the reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbachs alpha was used in this form that the questionnaire preliminarily was conducted on a random sample of Keshavarzi bank customers and its reliability was calculated and confirmed. In order to analyze the data, correlation coefficient and hierarchic regression were used. The results of hierarchic regression showed the factors related to employees (with retail factors of the employees professionalism, personality characteristics of employees ) and the factors related to the customers (with retail factors of exceeded expectations, esteem needs fulfilled and customer personality type) have had the most share in explaining the delighting changes. [Fahime Foroughi, Mehdi Iran Nejad Parizi. American Dream and the Tragedy of the Common Man in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Stem Cell 2016;7(2):132-140]. ISSN: 1945-4570 (print); ISSN: 1945-4732 (online). http://www.sciencepub. net/stem. 20. doi:10.7537/marsscj07021620.
Evaluation of potentiality of mango (Mangifera indica. L) Genotypes for physical attributes of fruits

Evaluation of fruit crops has been successfully utilized for studying the performance of varieties under different agro climatic regions. The main aim of the research was to investigate the physical attributes of different mango genotypes at Horticultural College and Research Institute (TNAU), Periyakulam during 2017-18. Outcome of the present research work revealed that the maximum fruit weight (315.08 g), fruit width (9.20 cm), fruit volume (345 cc), stone weight (33.82 g), pulp weight (252.85 g), pulp percentage (80.25 %), pulp to stone ratio (7.48:1) and pulp to peel ratio (8.90:1) was obtained in Au Rumani, while, the maximum fruit length (15.20 cm), stone length (8.36 cm) and stone width (4.48 cm) was recorded in Shajahan. The genotype Ratna was recorded significantly maximum specific gravity (1.76 g/cc). The maximum peel weight (29.86 g) and peel thickness (1.86 mm) was recorded significantly in Kundur Pacharisi and Sendhuram respectively; whereas, the maximum stone percentage (19.91 %) and peel percentage (16.25 %) was recorded in Kovankachi and P.K. Patti respectively. Hence, it can be concluded that the genotype Au Rumani was found superior in terms of pulp weight, fruit weight, pulp percentage, pulp to stone ratio and pulp to peel ratio.
Xanthine oxidase -oxidase stress marker in acute MI patient: a study at a teaching hospital in Telangana

Introduction: Despite impressive strides in diagnosis and management over the past three decades, acute myocardial infarction (AMI) continues to be a major public health problem in the industrialized world and is becoming an increasingly important problem in developing countries. Xanthine oxidase in ischemic conditions of the heart may play an important role in generating free radical mediated damage. Aim of the Study: To measure the levels of xanthine oxidase activity in myocardial infarction patients. Materials and Method: The study was conducted from the month of June 2011 to May 2012, at MGM Hospital, Warangal blood samples of 30 patients diagnosed as acute myocardial infarction were collected and subjected to plasma xanthine oxidase activity. Results: 60% of AMI patients belonged to 51-60 years age group. There was significant increase in mean values in Xanthine oxidase activity levels in (p < 0.001) in the study group as compared to controls. Conclusion: Xanthine oxidase is good markers in identifying AMI. They all can be used together as multiple markers to increase their efficiency as markers of AMI. The AST & LDH though exhibited good sensitivity, lack specificity. Hence they should not be used as individual markers. Keywords: Acute myocardial infarction, Male patients, Xanthine oxidase, Mycocardial injury, Free radicals