Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Calibration and Categorization of Plant Available Silicon in Rice Soils of South India

ABSTRACT Calibration of field crop responses to nutrient availability acts as a basis for making fertilizer recommendations from soil and tissue analysis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and summarize silicon (Si) fertilization of rice in different soils of south India. The experiment consists of four levels of calcium silicate as Si with three replications. Initially, soils were analyzed using eleven different extractants. The grain and straw yield were recorded and analyzed for Si content. The critical levels for plant available Si in the soil ranged from 14 mg kg−1 (distilled water-1) to 207 mg kg−1 [0.005 M sulfuric acid (H2SO4)]. There was a wide variation in low, medium, and high categories of plant available Si for different extractants calculated based on percent relative yield. The critical level of Si in straw and grain were 2.9 and 1.2%, respectively.
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHING STRATEGIES AND INSTRUCTOR CHARACTERISTICS EFFECTIVE FOR TEACHING ACCOUNTING

This study examined teaching strategies and instructor characteristics perceived by students to be effective in teaching accounting. A descriptive survey design was of accounting students in Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University. The average mean score and multiple regression were used for data analysis. The findings showed that student professional knowledge, tech teaching. These were significantly and positively correlated with effective teaching. This study contributes to the understanding of students’ perceptions of effective teaching methods characteristics for accounting learning.
Multidrug resistant Salmonella spp. and Escherichia coli from a popular Ready-to-Eat local food (Fufu) from commercial food vendors in Ghana

Microbial contamination of vended foods are of public health importance due to the potential of becoming a reservoir of foodborne pathogens and resistant strains of bacteria. This study looked at the presence of pathogenic bacteria in a popular Ready-To-Eat (RTE) traditional food, Fufu in Ghana. Sixty (60) Fufu samples were obtained from various food joints categorized as Opened, Semi-closed and Closed or Restaurants. Samples were processed and analyzed using standard bacteriological methods. The susceptibility profiles of the isolates were obtained by using the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method with the EUCAST guidelines with the five antibiotics. Prevalence of E. coli was 85% and Salmonella species was 68%. Microbial count of isolated E. coli ranged from 0 to 3×106 cfu/ml. There were no significant differences (p>0.05) among the different modes of operations. Fufu samples from Opened, Semi-closed and Closed joints were respectively contaminated with E. coli and Salmonella species as follows: 92%, 76%; 80%, 60% and 80%, 65%. The Salmonella species showed highest resistance to erythromycin (58.5%) and E. coli species were commonly resistant to Ceftazidime (88.2%) and Ceftriaxone (94.1%). All isolates were susceptible to nitrofurantoin. Multidrug resistance was detected among 27.5% of E. coli strains and 14.6% of Salmonella species. Fufu from the different eating joints in the Tamale Metropolis were substantially contaminated with multidrug resistant pathogens. The study recommends surveillance studies of resistant pathogens in foods, increased education and training of food vendors on sanitation, food handling and safety practices in the region.
Numerical Study of Separating and Reattaching Flow over a Rectangular Wall-mounted Obstacle

A numerical study of a flow over a rectangular wall-mounted obstacle has been investigated, using a DNS turbulent model. The two-dimensional Navier-Stokes and the continuity equations are solved using the finite element method. Turbulent flow characteristics of the flow are presented and compared numerically and qualitatively with other works. Instantaneous and time mean-averaged profiles of the velocity components and time mean-averaged distribution of the wall shear stress are presented. The fluctuations of velocity components and the energy spectrum analysis are given. The skin friction coefficient and the turbulent intensities are also presented. Key-Words: Simulation of Navier-Stokes equations, finite element method, turbulent flow, separation and reattachment. Figure 1. Computational domain of nominally two dimensional flow over a mounted obstacle. The Reynolds number is calculated with respect to the height of the obstacle and the inlet free stream velocity and is equal to Re = 1304. The boundary conditions upstream of the entrance of the computational domain are a uniform free stream. The no-slip boundary conditions are imposed along the walls of the wind tunnel and the obstacle. The free boundary condition, is the outlet boundary which lets the fluid leave the computational domain freely without distortion, [5, 10]. The initial condition is given by solving the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations at t=0 and (Re)h=1, [5]. 2.1 Finite Element Formulation – Spatial and Time Advancements To solve the governing equations (1) and (2), the finite element method has been used. The pressure was formulated by a linear basic function, while the Proceedings of the 3rd IASME/WSEAS Int. Conf. on FLUID DYNAMICS & AERODYNAMICS, Corfu, Greece, August 20-22, 2005 (pp224-229)
Full title: The landscape of antibody binding in SARS-CoV-2 infection Short title: SARS-CoV-2 antibody binding landscape

The search for potential antibody-based diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics for pandemic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has focused almost exclusively on the spike (S) and nucleocapsid (N) proteins. Coronavirus membrane (M), ORF3a, and ORF8 proteins are humoral immunogens in other coronaviruses (CoVs) but remain largely uninvestigated for SARS-CoV-2. Here we use ultradense peptide microarray mapping to show that SARS-CoV-2 infection induces robust antibody responses to epitopes throughout the SARS-CoV-2 proteome, particularly in M, in which one epitope achieved excellent diagnostic accuracy. We map 79 B cell epitopes throughout the SARS-CoV-2 proteome and demonstrate that antibodies that develop in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection bind homologous peptide sequences in the six other known human CoVs. We also confirm reactivity against four of our top-ranking epitopes by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Illness severity correlated with increased reactivity to nine SARS-CoV-2 epitopes in S, M, N, and ORF3a in our population. Our results demonstrate previously unknown, highly reactive B cell epitopes throughout the full proteome of SARS-CoV-2 and other CoV proteins.
Tracking Progress in Anthropometric Failure among Children in India: A Geospatial Analysis

Results: Results highlight that women’s education, maternal nutrition, birth order, birth weight, and the wealth quintiles of households were essential markers of the anthropometric failures among the children. The likelihood of anthropometric failures declined considerably during 1998-2005 in comparison to 2005-15, especially among the children from the wealthiest quintiles. Spatial clustering in the prevalence of anthropometric failures portrayed that Moran’s I values were significant for the utilization of ICDS services and mothers having low BMI. The univariate Moran’s I statistics were 0.62 and 0.72 for stunting and underweight, respectively. When spatial weights were considered, the autoregression model noticeably became stronger in predicting the prevalence of stunting and underweight.
Plant Stem Detection and Position Estimation using Machine Vision

In this paper we propose a machine vision based approach to plant stem detection. A sliding window classiﬁer is applied to predict whether each local window in the image displays a stem region or not. The resulting plant stem certainty map is post-processed and non-maxima suppression is used to generate the stem position candidates. Our approach is evaluated using real world image data from a commercial organic carrot farm that was captured with the autonomous ﬁeld robot Bonirob.
Does Local Government Capacity Hamper Improvement of Basic Education? An Analysis at the District Level in Indonesia

Due to fiscal decentralization in 2001, Indonesia decentralized the provision of public services, including basic education, to the district governments. In 2003, the country enacted a law mandating a minimum allocation of 20% of the government budget for education. Since 2009, the government of Indonesia has managed to allocate 20% of its budget for education, and on average, about 60% of the budget is transferred to the local governments. Although some early empirical studies show that education services improved after the decentralization in Indonesia, recent studies show the opposite. Increasing government spending on education at the district level does not necessarily improve education. This paper aims to empirically analyze the impact of government spending on a nine-year compulsory basic education at the district level in Indonesia. Furthermore, the paper elaborates on the issue of whether the capacity of local governments in managing their local finances might hamper the improvement of education. This paper not only employs an econometric analysis with updated secondary data of districts in Indonesia from 2010–2015, but also extends the analysis with findings from field visits to selected districts in Java, Indonesia. This paper finds that government spending on education, both local and central, has no significant impact on basic education at the district level. The greater impact of the spending prevails as the districts manage their education spending more effectively. Despite the size of the spending on education, the capacity of local government in managing and transforming the spending into education resources is imperative to enhance basic education at the district level. JEL Classification:, G38, H75, I28
VPLYV SANKCIÍ NA MIGRAČNÉ TOKY Z RUSKEJ FEDERÁCIE DO EURÓPSKEJ ÚNIE A INTEGRÁCIA RUSKÝCH MIGRANTOV

No military operation is conceivable without logistics. It is widely known, however, the origin of the term logistics is not unambiguously stated in publications and sometimes refers to ancient Greek. There is no doubt that the term “logistique” was first used by the general of Napoleonic army Antoine-Henri Jomini and Lieutenant Colonel George C. Thorpe, U. S. Marines, anglicized Jomini's term to “logistics”. Among many distinguished authors that paved the way to the current theory of military logistics cannot be omitted Rear Admiral Henry Eccles. It is also worth to mention Austrian-American economist Oskar Morgenstern and his attempt to outline a consistent language between military and business logistics and to formulate a general theory of logistics.
Colocation of Production and Innovation: Evidence from the United States*

Manufacturers perform the majority of US patenting and R&D. The decades-long decline of US manufacturing employment has thus raised concerns that US innovation will fall as well. We investigate the relationship between between physical production and innovation by constructing a new dataset linking all US firms and their establishments to location geocodes and innovative activities. Preliminary results indicate that while firms with both manufacturing and innovation establishments exhibit higher patenting when these facilities are more spatially proximate, manufacturing firms’ overall contribution to US innovation declines steadily and substantially over time. Moreover, we find that cohorts of firms permanently exiting manufacturing in the 1990s and 2000s continue to patent at their prior pace. We thank seminar participants at Dartmouth, Nathan Goldschlag and Shawn Klimek for comments, Emily Greenman for help with the disclosure process, and Alex Schott for research assistance. Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the US Census Bureau. All results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed. The Census Bureau’s Disclosure Review Board and Disclosure Avoidance Officers have reviewed this data product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and have approved the disclosure avoidance practices applied to this release. DRB Approval Numbers CBDRB-FY20-P1916-R8726 and CBDRB-FY20-P1916-R8756. Tuck School at Dartmouth & CEPR & NBER, email: teresa.fort@dartmouth.edu. University of Colorado & CEPR & NBER. Yale School of Management & CEPR & NBER. Penn State University & NBER. Center for Economic Studies US Census Bureau.
Evolution of microstructure in neutron irradiated cold rolled tungsten and its correlation with mechanical properties

The understanding of the neutron irradiation effects in tungsten is of significant importance for its use as a plasma facing material in future fusion devices. In this study, cold rolled tungsten is neutron irradiated at the Belgian BR2 fission reactor at the temperatures 600, 800, 900 and 1200 C to a dose of 0.18 dpa. The neutron induced changes in the microstructure are investigated as a function of irradiation temperature using transmission electron microscopy, positron annihilation spectroscopy and electrical resistivity measurements. The influence of the irradiation on the elastic properties and the hardness is examined using the impulse excitation techniques and depth-sensing indentation. Voids and dislocation loops are observed at all the irradiation temperatures. As irradiation temperature increases the number density of both voids and loops decreases whereas their size increases. The total dislocation density increases after irradiation at 600 C whereas it decreases for higher temperature irradiations. Furthermore, the formation also of very small vacancy clusters in the temperature range of 800 900 C is revealed by PAS measurements. The elastic properties are not influenced at this dose but a considerable hardening effect is found at all irradiation temperatures with the hardness reaching a maximum, of about 25%, at 800 C and no significant changes occur at higher irradiation temperatures.
The Acute Effect of a Sport-Specific Stretching Routine on the Performance of Vertical Jumps in Rhythmic Gymnasts

Silva GF, Almeida AR, Rodrigues SA, Szmuchrowski LA, Silva RAD, Drummond MDM. The Acute Effect of a SportSpecific Stretching Routine on the Performance of Vertical Jumps in Rhythmic Gymnasts. JEPonline 2018;21(2):30-39. The purpose of this study was to investigate the acute effect of a specific flexibility training session on the height of a countermovement jump (CMJ) in Rhythmic Gymnastics (RG) Athletes. The subjects in this study were 13 female athletes with a mean age of 14.5 ± 2.43 yrs. After familiarization with the CMJ, the subjects performed the two evaluation sessions with a 48-hr interval between the two sessions. The athletes performed the CMJ tests without and with a predetermined stretch routine, which had pre-defined parameters specific to the modality. The results demonstrated a significant reduction in the height of the vertical jumps in the second session, compared to the first session (P=0.0001). Therefore, the modality-specific stretching protocol that was used generated an acute negative effect on the athletes’ CMJ performance.
Responses of C:N:P stoichiometry of plants from a Hulunbuir grassland to salt stress, drought and nitrogen addition Respuestas de la estequiometría C:N:P en un pastizal de Hulunbuir expuesto a estrés salino,

Resumen. Los elementos químicos como el carbono (C), nitrógeno (N) y fósforo (P) son nutrientes limitantes importantes en los pastizales áridos y semiáridos, y su estequiometria (C:N:P) es muy importante en determinar esta relación. Además, es crítico entender como la estequiometria responde a factores ambientales múltiples a nivel de especies. En este estudio, efectuamos un experimento de invernáculo para investigar los efectos del estrés salino (4 g NaCl/kg de suelo), la sequía (35% de la capacidad de campo), y la adición de N (10 g N/m2), así como sus interacciones, en las concentraciones de C, N, y P y relaciones C:N:P en dos especies dominantes (Allium polyrhizum y Stipa krylovii) de los pastizales naturales de Hulunbuir en la parte central de Mongolia en China. Allium polyrhizum mostró concentraciones de N y P más altas, y menores relaciones C:N y C:P que S. krylovii. El estrés salino significativamente disminuyó la concentración de C de la planta, mientras que la sequía no tuvo los efectos significativos en todas las variables de estudio de las dos especies vegetales. La adición de N incrementó significativamente las concentraciones de N de la planta, y redujo las relaciones C:N y C:P. Hubo interacciones significativas entre el estrés salino y la identidad de las especies en afectar las concentraciones de C y N de la planta y las relaciones C:N y N:P. Este estudio podría enriquecer el conocimiento de la estequiometria de las plantas en respuesta a estreses ambientales múltiples.
THE CHANGE OF SHEAR FORCE AND ENERGY OF COTTON STALK DEPEND ON KNIFE TYPE AND SHEAR ANGLE

The shear force and energy values of biological materials are very important data for suitable design of a cutting and pruning machines and related equipment. The objective of this study was to determine shearing force and shearing energy of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) stalk at different shoots diameter as a function of knife type and knife edge angle. Dependent variables were maximum cutting force and cutting energy. The samples were obtained from the cotton experimental field at vegetation season for each plot. A universal test machine was used to measure the cutting force and the energy. The cutting energy was calculated by measuring the surface area under the cutting forcedeformation curve. As a result, the main effect of the knife edge angle on the cutting force and energy were found significant. The best and minimal results were determined at serrated 2 knife types to be 69.61 N and 25.61 N cm, respectively, followed by the serrated 1 and flat knife. The highest values were observed at flat knife type. Nevertheless, the cutting force and cutting energy increased with an increase in the knife edge angle from 50° to 90°. The maximum values were obtained at 90 both cutting force and cutting energy. At this angle, while the maximum cutting force and cutting energy were determined to be 93.18 N and 31.60 N cm, respectively. The main minimum values were obtained at 50° angle. Cutting force and energy values of cotton stalk were found highly correlated with the stalk diameter. Cutting force and energy increased with increase diameter of stalk. The maximum cutting force and cutting energy were obtained at 29.20 mm cross-sectional area as 102.30 N and 41.97 Ncm, respectively, while the minimum values of cutting force and cutting energy were obtained at 13.84 mm cross-sectional area as 47.28 N and 16.76 N cm, respectively.
ATBox results for OAEI 2022

In this paper we present the results of the ATBox matcher (ATMatcher for short) during the OAEI campain 2022. The system is able to match instances (Abox) as well as the schema (Tbox) of given knowledge graphs. It scales to large inputs by using effective and modular approaches implemented in the MELT framework. The system participates for the third time in the OAEI. First, two pipelines for matching the schema and instance are used to generate candidates. Afterwards the instance matches are improved and repaired by reusing the candidate class correspondences.
Macroinvertebrate distribution in relation to land use and water chemistry in New York City drinking-water-supply watersheds

Abstract Macroinvertebrate communities were examined in conjunction with landuse and water-chemistry variables at 60 sites in the NYC drinking-water-supply watersheds over a 3-y period. The watersheds are in 2 adjacent regions of New York State (east of Hudson River [EOH] and west of Hudson River [WOH]) that are geographically distinct and have unique macroinvertebrate communities. Nonforested land use at EOH sites was mostly urban (4–57%), whereas land use at sites in the rural WOH region was more agricultural (up to 26%) and forested (60–97%). Land use accounted for 47% of among-site variability in macroinvertebrate communities in the EOH region and was largely independent of geological effects. Land use accounted for 40% of among-site variability in macroinvertebrate communities in the WOH region but was correlated with underlying geology. Comparisons among 3 landuse scales emphasized the importance of watershed- and riparian-scale land use to macroinvertebrate communities in both regions. Multivariate and bivariate taxa–environment relationships in the EOH and WOH regions identified specific landuse and water-chemistry gradients and, in general, showed a continuum in conditions across the watersheds. WOH macroinvertebrate communities varied primarily with specific conductance, population density, and agricultural and urban land use, but communities were not classified as impaired along these gradients. EOH macroinvertebrate communities were associated with a wider range of watershed conditions than WOH communities. Conditions ranged from forested to urban, and distinctive communities were associated with point-source discharges, road density, and lake outlets. The severity of the impact gradient in the EOH region resulted in impaired macroinvertebrate communities with decreased total and Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera (EPT) taxon richness and increased densities of oligochaetes and chironomids.
Use of antineoplastic therapy and nonessential medications in veteran patients receiving palliative care

THE USE OF ANTINEOPLASTIC THERAPY AND NONESSENTIAL medications are common at the end of life. Studies have not confirmed improved quality of life or a meaningful extended survival. Rather, antineoplastic therapy use near the end of life has been associated with more aggressive care with no improved outcomes and unnecessary healthcare expenditures. A study by Mack et al. (2015) using the New York State Cancer Registry and Medicaid data among patients diagnosed with stage I–IV cancer revealed that 38% of patients received chemotherapy within 14 days of death, 75% of patients received aggressive care within 30 days of death (defined as an intensive care unit [ICU] admission, hospitalization, or emergency department visit), and only 23% received hospice care before death. Mack et al. (2015) further reported that aggressive end-of-life measures have been associated with poorer quality of life and less caregiver satisfaction with care. A review by Green et al. (2017) of 21,894 patients diagnosed with stage IIIB or IV non-small cell lung cancer using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER)–Medicare database reported that 43% received chemotherapy within 30 days of death. Green et al. (2017) went on to conclude that early palliative care intervention can lead to care that is more consistent with the patient’s goals, significantly decreasing chemotherapy use close to death and minimizing the risk for more burdensome side effects. The findings from this study will help show the benefits of palliative care involvement in improving comprehensive cancer care among patients with stage IV malignancies receiving care from a medical center within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) system. The findings will help promote high-quality end-of-life care and minimize costly and unnecessary aggressive care near the end of life.
Winning! Adjudication and Dialogue in Social Media

Event adjudication, the act of granting ownership of an outcome to individuals or groups in social media, has important implications for content propagation and political dialogue. In this article, we introduce readers to a model of adjudication which explains social media behavior when elections are decided in favor of one community. Our model provides information about the quality of the adjudicator, information leakage prior to adjudication, and the level of user engagement. We present results on three elections in Argentina, Brazil, and the