Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Regression analysis and inter generation trait association in F3 and F4 generation of wheat

The present study was carried to determine the response of selection for grain yield, yield-related components and to study the amount of genetic variation transferred from one generation to next generation viz., F 3 and F 4 segregating generations of wheat derived from a single cross WH711xPBW698. The coefficient of variation was high in the F 3 generation compared to F 4 which was low, indicating that homozygosity is attained in the F 3 generation itself. In both the generation negatively skewed platykurtic for plant height, spike length, spike weight, grain weight/ spike, the number of grains/ spike, the number of tillers/ plant, grain yield/ plant and biological yield/ plant indicated that these traits were governed by many numbers of genes and most of them with governed by dominant and dominant based duplicate epistasis. Mild selection is expected to result in a rapid genetic gain for these traits. The positively skewed platykurtic for leaf length, flag leaf area, 100 grain weight, harvest index and days to heading indicate that these traits were governed by many genes and the majority of them displaying dominant and dominant based complementary epistasis and hence the intensive selection is required for rapid genetic gain in these traits. Positive and significant values of intergenerational correlation and regression were observed for all the characters, which indicated the effectiveness and reliability of selection for these characters. The results indicate that progeny performance in the F 3 generation can be suggestive for selecting superior progenies in subsequent generations.
Determination of optimum dose of chemical mutagen for large scale seed treatment of white seeded sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) varieties

In the present study two white seeded sesame varieties VRI 3 and SVPR 1 were treated with seven different concentration viz., 0.2 %, 0.4 %, 0.6 %, 0.8 %, 1 %, 1.2 % and 1.4 % of chemical mutagen Ethyl Methane Sulphonate (EMS). Germination percentage and germination index were tested using two different germination methods. Seed germination percentage and germination index was decreased with increased doses of EMS in both the varieties. The higher concentration of EMS completely arrested the seed germination. The optimum dose of the mutagen should be tested to maintain the require plant population in the M 1 generation and increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the mutagen. LD 50 value was determined using probit analysis. For SVPR 1 and VRI 3, LD 50 value was found to be 0.36% and 0.44 % respectively. For fixing the lethal dose for the chemical mutagen, Pro tray method of germination test was found to be reliable than germination paper method.
Why Do Firms Release Profit Warnings

Over the last decade, an increasing number of traded companies have decided to release profit warnings (PWs). The aim of this paper is to determine the motives that influence the decision of managers to disclose or withhold bad news. Accordingly, we model the warning decision by a logit model. Based on a sample of 3254 PWs issued by US and European firms over the period 2000â€“2015, we find that the exposure to potential litigation costs is an important incentive for the decision to issue a warning. We also show that the firms that disclose PWs are those characterized by a large size, greater analyst coverage, low leverage, and high quality of auditing. However, it seems that managers of firms that are in financial distress and with important institutional shareholders tend to withhold bad news. This situation is strengthened when managers have greater incentives (stock options grants) to avoid a decline in the stock price.
Characterising User Content on a Multi-lingual Social Network

Social media has been on the vanguard of political information diffusion in the 21st century. Most studies that look into disinformation, political influence and fake-news focus on mainstream social media platforms. This has inevitably made English an important factor in our current understanding of political activity on social media. As a result, there has only been a limited number of studies into a large portion of the world, including the largest, multilingual and multicultural democracy: India. In this paper we present our characterisation of a multilingual social network in India called ShareChat. We collect an exhaustive dataset across 72 weeks before and during the Indian general elections of 2019, across 14 languages. We investigate the cross lingual dynamics by clustering visually similar images together, and exploring how they move across language barriers. We find that Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada languages tend to be dominant in soliciting political images (often referred to as memes), and posts from Hindi have the largest cross-lingual diffusion across ShareChat (as well as images containing text in English). In the case of images containing text that cross language barriers, we see that language translation is used to widen the accessibility. That said, we find cases where the same image is associated with very different text (and therefore meanings). This initial characterisation paves the way for more advanced pipelines to understand the dynamics of fake and political content in a multi-lingual and non-textual setting.
New Developments in the Testing, Design and Construction of Concrete Structures Incorporating Class L Reinforcing Mesh

• The details of a new major experimental test program being undertaken by the SRIA in collaboration with leading Australian academics and design practitioners are briefly described. The tests are designed to provide new research findings regarding the effects of: mixing Class L and N reinforcing steels; end or edge restraints representative of real construction, as opposed to free restraints normally used in laboratory tests, including membrane action; two-way action; and relative support movement or settlement.
Investigating the Benefits and Challenges Associated with E-Surveying-A Review

Email and Web surveys are the major evolution in the recent era and the limelight lies in their abilities in shrinking the errands of researchers‘ through simplification of their data collection process. Researchers in the recent times have started to adapt the internet as their prime platform for collection of primary data for their research. E-surveying or Internet based survey process has its own benefits and challenges like any other technique. This paper identifies both the benefits as well as challenges associated with the adaptation of E-survey technique by a researcher for data collection through a systematic review of existing literature. The review reveals that E-surveying technique is faster, better, less expensive and less demanding when compared with that of manual surveys. At the same time, E-surveying is prone to some ethical issues, usage issues and security related issues. This study brings into picture both the benefits and challenges associated with E-surveys.
“Comparative Assessment of the Effects of Vitamin C and OxitardTM On the Plasma Total Anti-Oxidant Capacity (TAOC) In Patients with Chronic Periodontitis (Chp) When Used As Adjuncts to Non-Surgical Periodontal Therapy”

Background: Antioxidants exist in all body fluids and tissues and protect against free radicals and protect the cells from harmful oxidants (ROS). The human body incorporates a plethora of complex antioxidant systems. Hence, the total antioxidant capacity (TAOC) assessment method has been developed to reduce the costly and time-consuming task of measuring individual species. Periodontitis could be associated with reduced local antioxidant defense. Aim: To investigate the Total Antioxidant Capacity of (TAOC) of plasma in subjects with chronic periodontitis compared to that of periodontally healthy subjects. Methodology: 60 subjects were selected. Group A:15 periodontally healthy subjects (SRP) Group B: SRP + Vitamin C (9 males, 6 females) Group C:{SRP + OXITARDTM (11 males and 4 females) The clinical parameters that were recorded included Probing pocket depth (PD), Clinical attachment level (CAL), Gingival index (GI), Plaque index (PI) and Bleeding on probing (BOP) at baseline, 1 month and 3 months. Result: This study showed evidently that subjects with ChP are associated with significantly lower levels of plasma TAOC.
THE REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF SELECTED TAXA

We used cytological and embryological methods to study reproductive cycle stages in Cerasus fruticosa Pall. , Cerasus × eminens (Beck) Buia and Cerasus × mohacsyana (Kárpáti) Janchen from SW Slovakia, focusing on development of the male and female reproductive organs, fertilization processes and embryo formation. We found that reproductive potential was reduced by synergistic effects of negative biotic and abiotic factors. Despite the presence of degenerated, deformed pollen grains and their great variability of shape and size, a sufficient amount of normally developed viable pollen grains developed in anthers of C. fruticosa and C. × mohacsyana. Disturbed microsporogenesis in C. × eminens led to significantly lower production of viable pollen grains. We did not observe serious disturbances during megasporogenesis and megagametogenesis. Lower fruit set was caused by degeneration of ovules as a result of unsuccessful pollination, fertilization failure, or embryo degeneration during its initial development.
Health Versus Wealth: On the Distributional Effects of Controlling a Pandemic

To slow COVID-19, many countries have shut down part of the economy. Older individuals have the most to gain from slowing virus diffusion. Younger workers in sectors that are shuttered have most to lose. In this paper, we build a model in which economic activity and disease progression are jointly determined. Individuals differ by age (young, retired), by sector (basic, luxury), and health status. Disease transmission occurs in the workplace, through consumption, at home, and in hospitals. We study the optimal economic mitigation policy for a government that can redistribute across individuals, but where redistribution is costly. Optimal redistribution and mitigation policies interact, and more modest shutdowns are optimal when redistribution is more costly. We find that the shutdowns that were implemented in mid-April were too extensive, but a partial shutdown should remain in place through the fall. A deeper and longer shutdown is preferred if a vaccine is imminent.
Journal of Allergy and clinical immunology

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The Long-Term Impacts of Girl-Friendly Schools: Ten-Year Evidence from School Construction in Burkina Faso

We evaluate the long-term effect of a “girl-friendly” primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design. The intervention consisted of upgrading existing three-classroom schools to six-classroom schools to accommodate more grades. Ten years after the program began, we found that it raised girls’ academic outcomes and reduced early marriage and child bearing. Among girls 19 to 22 year-old in selected villages, the program increased the completion of primary school and the transition to secondary school by 4 and 5 percentage points, corresponding to an increase of 33.8 and 32.8 percent relative to the non-selected average around the threshold. The program reduced early marriage and childbearing by 9.80 and 5.90 percentage points, respectively. The program did not affect boys’ marriage and fertility outcomes. The impacts on boys’ academic outcomes were substantial, although smaller than those of girls, a pattern which is consistent with the program focus on girls. JEL Codes: I24, I25, I28, O15
Character-based units for unlimited vocabulary continuous speech recognition

We study character-based language models in the state-of-the-art speech recognition framework. This approach has advantages over both word-based systems and so-called end-to-end ASR systems that do not have separate acoustic and language models. We describe the necessary modifications needed to build an effective character-based ASR system using the Kaldi toolkit and evaluate the models based on words, statistical morphs, and characters for both Finnish and Arabic. The morph-based models yield the best recognition results for both well-resourced and lower-resourced tasks, but the character-based models are close to their performance in the lower-resource tasks, outperforming the word-based models. Character-based models are especially good at predicting novel word forms that were not seen in the training data. Using character-based neural network language models is both computationally efficient and provides a larger gain compared to the morph and word-based systems.
Standardisation of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in WP-22-2 – a semi-dwarf and early maturing rice mutant of improved white ponni

Genome engineering using Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR associated (Cas) system offers vast potential in the improvement of crop plants. For CRISPR/Cas9 mediated editing in rice, transformation protocols should be standardized for specific genotypes. We standardized the Agrobacterium-mediated transformation protocols for two genotypes – Improved White Ponni (IWP) and WP-22-2, a gamma-ray induced mutant of Improved White Ponni. Three different modifications of MS basal medium, different days old calli and bacterial culture of different optical density were evaluated. Callus induction with IWP-CI-medium-1 followed by callus proliferation for one month in IWP-CI-medium-2 produced transformable calli. Infection with 0.3 OD Agrobacterium culture for 10 min was less damaging and successful than higher density cultures. The transformation efficiency varied between the Improved White Ponni and WP-22-2 emphasizing the need for standardizing tissue culture protocols for every genotype. Transformation efficiency of 9.46 per cent and 3.53 per cent respectively were observed for Improved White Ponni and WP-22-2 which were higher than previous reports.
Factors Contributing to Cost Escalation and Delay of Public-Private Partnership Projects in Maldives Construction Industry

The purpose of the research is to identify the factors that contributes to cost escalation and delay of PPP construction projects in Maldives and to identify the significant factors in the perspective of the actors (client, contractor and consultant). In this quantitative research, a survey comprising the actors who have had previous experience in the field of PPP construction projects were used. The data analysis was carried out using Relative and Important Index (RII). The key findings indicate that the most significant factor for cost escalation is scope changes, followed by schedule delay and technical challenges and the most significant factor for project delay was delayed payments, followed by financial process, changes in drawings and poor supervision. The study contributes to the body of knowledge in construction industry by identifying the most significant factor which contributes to cost escalation and project delay in Maldives. The study is particularly useful for policymakers as a guide for planning and implementing PPP projects in the construction industry of Maldives.
Outcome of Synthetic Bone Graft Substitute Hydroxyapatite in the Different Orthopedic Conditions

A randomized study was conducted to know the efficacy of use of Hydroxyapatite as a bone graft substitute in union of fractures and other bone defects. Ofsurgeons and periodontists need to fill defects in the bone or augment deficient bone. Bone harvested from donor sit the 37 defects in 33 patients, union was seen in 29 patients. Average follow-up was 7.9 months of the available 29 patients for follow up, ranging from 1.5 to 21 months. The mean defect size was 4.9 cu.cm. Non union and tumor recurrence were seen in 1 patient each. Minor complications such as soft tissue infiltration of hydroxyapatite, superficial infection and wound gaping causing nodule formation and pain were noted in few patients. Superficial infection responded adequately to regular dressings and proper antibiotics and pain following the nodule formation gradually subsided over a period of 5-6 months. Conclusion This study concludes that hydroxyapatite can be a useful bone graft substitute with avoidance of donor site morbidity. Complications arising by use of hydroxyapatite per se, are readily manageable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 11-12-2019 Date of Acceptance: 26-12-2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EFFECT OF FOLIAR APPLICATION OF DAP, HUMIC ACID AND MICRONUTRIENTS ON GROWTH CHARACTERS OF GROUNDNUT (ARACHIS HYPOGAEA L.) VAR. TMV 7 IN SANDY LOAM SOIL

A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of foliar application of DAP, humic acid and micronutrients on growth characters of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) var. TMV 7 in sandy loam soil. Groundnut plants were given foliar application viz.,T1–Control,T2–DAP 2.0%, T3–Humic acid 0.3%,T4–Micronutrient mixture 0.3%, T5–DAP 2.0% + Humic acid 0.3%, T6–DAP 2.0% + Micronutrient mixture 0.3%, T7–Humic acid 0.3% + Micronutrient mixture 0.3%, T8–DAP 2.0% + Humic acid 0.3% + Micronutrient mixture 0.3%. The results observed that foliar application of humic acid, DAP and micronutrient mixture recorded higher values for growth characters viz., plant height, number of leaves plant, leaf area index, number of nodules plant, chlorophyll content and dry matter production over control.
epcAware: A Game-Based, Energy, Performance and Cost-Efficient Resource Management Technique for Multi-Access Edge Computing

Internet of Things (IoT) is producing an extraordinary volume of data daily, and it is possible that the data may become useless while on its way to the cloud, due to long distances. Fog/edge computing is a new model for analysing and acting on time-sensitive data, adjacent to where it is produced. Further, cloud services provided by large companies such as Google, can also be localised to improve response time and service agility. This is accomplished through deploying small-scale datacentres in various locations, where needed in proximity of users; and connected to a centralised cloud that establish a multi-access edge computing (MEC). The MEC setup involves three parties, i.e., service providers (IaaS), application providers (SaaS), network providers (NaaS); which might have different goals, therefore, making resource management difficult. Unlike existing literature, we consider resource management with respect to all parties; and suggest game-theoretic resource management techniques to minimise infrastructure energy consumption and costs while ensuring applications’ performance. Our empirical evaluation, using Google’s workload traces, suggests that our approach could reduce up to 11.95 percent energy consumption, and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\sim$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mo>∼</mml:mo></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="zakarya-ieq1-3005347.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>17.86% user costs with negligible loss in performance. Moreover, IaaS can reduce up to 20.27 percent energy bills and NaaS can increase their costs-savings up to 18.52 percent as compared to other methods.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND INTEGRATED REPORTING: THAI EVIDENCE

This study aimed to investigate the extent and level of integrated reporting in annual reports of companies in the Stock Exchange of Thailand between 2012 and 2015, test for differences in the level of integrated reporting during the period being studied, and examine the relationship between corporate governance and the level of integrated reporting. By simple random sampling, 150 firms were selected as the sample. Content analysis was used to quantify the integrated reporting. The results found that the companies provided 603.59 words of integrated reporting. Within the six categories of capital falling within the scope of integrated reporting, intellectual capital reporting was the most commonly reported category, while environmental capital reporting was the least commonly reported category. There were significantly increased levels of integrated reporting between 2012 and 2015. There were significant positive relationships between institution-owned firms, board size, companies given CSR awards and the level of integrated reporting.
Histopathological Study of Spectrum of Ovarian Tumors – A 2 Years Study in a Tertiary Care Institute

Introduction:Ovarian tumours are heterogeneous neoplasms with varied clinical, morphological and histological features. Ovarian tumours account for 3% of cancers in females and is the 5th most common form of cancer related death in females.Epithelial tumors comprise about 60% of all ovarian neoplasms and more than 90% of malignant tumors. Tumors derived from the sex cords or ovarian mesenchyme constitute 5% to 12% of all ovarian neoplasms.Ovarian tumors are often difficult to detect until they are advanced in stage or size, as symptoms are vague and insidious and there is no definite screening programme for early detection. Aims & Objectives:To study the incidence, age distribution and diverse histomorphological spectrum of ovarian tumours. Materials & Methods:This Prospective study of 2 years duration comprised of 116 ovarian neoplasms diagnosed in the department of pathology, in a tertiary care institute. After obtaining clinical data from the records and gross examination, tissue samples from representative area were fixed in formalin, routinely processed, embedded in paraffin and stained with Hematoxylin& Eosin. Tumours were classified according to WHO classification (2014). Histochemistry was done whereverrequired. Results:A total of 116 ovarian neoplasms were studied during this period. Majority were benign tumours (91.4%), followed by malignant (6.9%) and borderline tumours (1.7%). Epithelial tumors comprise about 78.4%, followed by Germ cell tumors (15.5%) and Sex cord-stromal tumors 6%. Serous cystadenoma was the commonest benign tumor and Adult granulosa cell tumour was the commonest malignant ovarian tumour. Conclusion:The prognosis and varying therapeutic strategies of ovarian tumours necessitate an accurate pathological evaluation. Histopathological study is still the gold standard in diagnosing most of these tumours
Horizon-specific risks, higher moments, and asset prices

Asset pricing traditionally works with information aggregated over horizons, however investors’ preferences are horizon-specific. Decomposing returns, and risk factors to components representing individual horizons may hence provide valuable insights into pricing mechanisms of investors. With increasing size of factor-investing literature, the number of factors approximating risk, and possibly explaining the cross section of returns is growing rapidly. However, most of the factors perform poorly in subsequent out-of-sample testing. Therefore, attention should be turned to theory-based factors approximating the risks such as moments of the return distribution that are found to be priced empirically. We derive an asset pricing model that contains second, third and fourth centralized moments of returns on aggregate wealth decomposed to short-run and long-run components. Empirical results show that horizon-specific risk from higher moments is priced, and uncovers different effects of the moment-based risk factors in short-run, and long-run.