Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effectiveness of DNase and washing steps in removing dead cells’ DNA for PCR detection of viable Escherichia coli

This study investigates the use of DNase and washing steps in removing dead cells’ DNA during sample preparation and their effect on the detection of viable cells using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The results indicated that the DNA from heat-killed cells could be completely removed by DNase; thus, would not be detected by PCR. Inclusion of washing steps in centrifugation during sample preparation fails to remove DNA from heat-killed cells, but it reduces the amount of DNA from dead cells as well as viable cells. DNase could selectively remove DNA of heat-killed cells in the water sample without influencing the PCR amplification of viable cells’ DNA. The inclusion of washing steps in the centrifugation procedure was ineffective, because viable cells might be lost during washing steps. This method allows the detection of viable bacteria and subsequently contributes to research concerning environmental samples.
Genetic Variation in Flowering Time of Soybean Based On DNA Markers

Flowering time is one of the important target traits in a soybean breeding program. Photoperiod and temperature influence the vegetative and reproductive development from emergence to maturity in soybean. The objective of this study was to analyze genetic variation in flowering time based on agronomic performance and SSR marker. One hundred and eight soybean cultivars evaluated in this study were collected from different geographic regions such as China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Days to flowering and maturity were recorded in two different field in Suwon, Korea (127°02’ E longitude, 37°26’ N latitude) and Can Tho, Vietnam (105°54’E longitude and 10°9’N latitude). Genotypic data were also collected at one-hundred and twenty six SSR loci. Genotypic variation was observed in flowering time. Results depicted that Vietnamese cultivars were more sensitive to day length. There was a large variation of maturity among cultivars. Chinese cultivar group was more diverse than the other groups. Through 126 observed loci, the number of amplified bands was common from four to six bands. R value used to estimate linkage disequilibrium (LD), varied according to LGs. 2 It depends on the distance and number of observed loci. About 18 loci were associated closely with flowering time as well as maturity at p<10 . Cluster analysis, based on Nei’s distance and Bayesian method, revealed that -4 Vietnamese and Korean cultivar groups were quite different from the other groups; meanwhile Chinese and Japanese cultivar groups were close. These results will be useful for soybean variety improvement program in future.
Pre-germination treatments of Paricá (Schizolobium amazonicum) seeds

Paricá seeds have dormancy and, even after mechanical scarification, these seeds show slow and uneven germination. Pre-germination treatments can be used to increase seed germination performance. Thus, the aimed to evaluate the physiological potential and initial growth of paricá seeds after pre-germination treatments, using different substances as plant regulators and nutrients, in addition to mechanical scarification. The experimental design was completely randomized, in a 2x7 factorial scheme, consisting of the following pre-germination treatments: mechanical scarification (10% and 50% of the seed coat) and seed pre-soaking [control-water, KNO3 0.2%, Ca(NO3)2 0.2%, gibberellin 0.02%, cytokinin 0.02%, and mixture of gibberellin + cytokinin (1:1)] besides a control group without pre-soaking, with four replicates. The study evaluated germination and emergence rates, germination and emergence speed indices, collar diameter, plant height, seedling dry mass, hypocotyl and seedling length, and electrical conductivity. It was observed that pre-soaking the seeds in gibberellin after mechanical scarification at 50% as a pre-germination treatment resulted in seeds with higher vigor expression and greater initial seedling growth.
Use of maintenance vector regression to calculate metallogenic favourability degree

Mineral resource prediction is becoming increasingly important as researchers attempt to resolve the prospect direction by mining geological data. In this paper, Support Vector Regression (SVR) is applied to predict iron deposit metallogenic favourability degree since SVR is a powerful tool to solve the problem characterized by smaller sample, nonlinearity, and high dimension with a good generalization performance based on structural risk minimization. The paper discusses the support vector regression algorithm in some detail, describes a SVR based-system that learns from examples to predict metallogenic favourability degree of iron deposit and contrasts this approach with Partial Least Squares (PLS). The experimental results show that SVR has high recognition rates and good generalization performance for small sample, especially good for treating the data of some nonlinearity in geology.
Capital Structure in Mena Region: A Panel Data Analysis

In this paper we make an attempt to provide some insight into the capital structure choice of the MENA region for the period 2006-2015. We develop a dynamic panel data model that explicitly takes into account the determinants of capital structure choice. It has been concluded that factors such as size, profitability, asset tangibility and rating have significant impact on the leverage structure by firms in the MENA region context.
Entrepreneur’s Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Mediating Role of Corporate Social Responsibility

The purpose of this research was to investigate corporate social responsibility CSR as a mediating factor affecting the separate relationships between pro-environmental behavior (PEB) and both environmental education (EE) and environmental concern (EC). The framework in this study was based on the theory of planned behavior which presents the relationship between attitude, norms and intention. The list of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for this research was randomly selected from the database of the Department of Business Development, Ministry of Commerce, Thailand. A self-administered questionnaire was developed to collect the data from owners and managers of SMEs. The two-sampling research method was a combination of mailed self-administered questionnaires and purposive sampling methods. A total of 774 surveys from 401 enterprises were used in this study. The result for mediation effect of corporate social responsibility was significant, indicating that corporate social responsibility mediated the relationship between environmental concern and pro-environmental behavior (β = .52, p < 0.01). Additionally, environmental education (β = .18, p < 0.01) and environmental concern (β = .72, p < 0.01) impacts corporate social responsibility and is statistically significant to pro-environmental behavior (β = .37, p < 0.01). SMEs should focus on the environmental concern within their organizational communications, and provide environmental education, as they are key dimensions in driving the pro-environmental behavior of the SMEs. The practical implication of this study is that in order to enhance PEB among Thai SMEs, there is a need to ensure adequate amount of CSR activities in Thai SMEs.
International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE)

Every company that goes public or has already listed on the stock exchange must first be audited financial statements before publishing. Auditors who audit often change, both mandatory and voluntary. The researcher wants to know what causes the company to make auditor changes. This study aims to determine the effect of audit opinion, company size, financial distress and return on assets for auditor switching. This study conducted on manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange period year 2015-2017. A total of 36 manufacturing companies are used as sample by using the purposive sampling method. Data analysis technique used is logistic regression analysis with SPSS version 25. Auditor switching is measured by the switch of audit partner. The result concluded that audit opinion effect on auditor switching, whereas the company size, financial distress and return on assets have no effect on auditor
Genetic and phenotypic performance of three coat color variants of Black Bengal Goat in a closed nucleus flock at BLRI

The objective of this study was to evaluate comparative performance of three coat color variants of Black Bengal Goat. The research was conducted under semi-intensive management system and data were analyzed statistically with R packages and VCE animal model. Irrespective of sex, color type (CT), litter type (LT), kidding parity (KP) and kidding season (KS), overall mean values of birth (BWT), one (1MWT), three (3MWT), six (6MWT) month body weight, growth rate at 0 to 3 (GR0-3) and 3 to 6 (GR3-6) month were 1.14±0.02, 3.52±0.09, 7.24±0.18, 11.64±0.41kg, 58.02±2.02 and 48.80±2.83g/d, respectively. CT had p<0.05 effect on 3MWTand 6MWTand p<0.001 on GR0-3, Whereas LT had on BWT p<0.001 and 6MWT p<0.05 effect. Sex, KP and KS had no significant effect on all body weight (BW) traits. Irrespective of CT and KP, overall mean values of age at puberty (AP), age at first kidding (AFK), number of services per conception (NSPC), litter size (LS), post-partum heat period (PPHP) and kidding interval (KI) were 215.5±15.6 d, 374.5±20.0 d, 1.25±0.05 no., 2.37±0.09 no., 43.3±4.01 d and 210.6±7.34 d, respectively. CT had no significant effect on all reproductive traits (RT). KP had p<0.001 effect on LS. The BW and GR traits exhibited medium h 2 estimates ranging from 0.463 to 0.493. All RT showed low estimates of h 2 ranging from 0.002 to 0.159, except that of AP (0.490). The strengths of rg andrp correlations among BW and GR traits were medium to strong (p<0.01) with positive direction among most pairs of traits. The rg andrp correlations between 6MWT and AP existed to be significantly (p<0.05) medium strength -52.0% and39.4%. On the other hand, correlations between 6MWT and LS appeared to be significantly (p<0.05) medium strength +46.1% and +46.9%. The rg andrp between AP and LS was very low. rg among BW traits indicate that selection of animal based on BWT may have very little chance of improvement for other traits as rg and rp between BWT with weights at other ages are low. However, due to strongly positive rg between 3MWT and 6MWT, early selection at 3MWT could be helpful for breeding purpose in future genetic improvement program.
Influence of hole doping on the superconducting state in graphane A P Durajski High-temperature superconductivity: the current state Evgenii G Maksimov Optical conductivity of iron-based superconductors A Charnukha Empirical rule to reconcile Bardeen– Cooper–Schrieffer theory with electron–phonon in

We introduce a simple empirical rule wherein the pairing interaction in superconductors is cancelled when normal and umklapp phonon scattering coexist. Superconductivity then arises solely from the residual umklapp contribution. As a result the deduced electron–phonon interactions in niobium, tantalum, lead and aluminum become virtually identical in the normal and superconducting states. Transition temperatures calculated under the rule are accurate within a few per cent when compared with experimental data. Features of the Matthias relations are also explained. The high Tc so far predicted for metallic hydrogen is probably overly optimistic.
A Comparative Study in some Morphological and Histological Features of the Liver in Gull (Laruscanus) and Mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos)

| This study was conducted to evaluate the morphological and histological features of the liver in two species of birds that vary in their food habitats; gull and mallard. Histomorphologically, the liver in these species is composed of the left (small) and right (big) lobes and the right lobe in gull was subdivided into two parts. Histologically, fibrous capsule covered the liver parenchyma without any clearly defined lobules in both species. The hepatic architecture comprised of hepatic cells organized as irregular plates or cords, which radiated around the central vein and the blood sinusoids distributed among those plates. The portal triads, enclosed by fibrous connective tissue, contains branch of hepatic artery, bile duct andportal vein. Several histological structures shown variations in both species including; capsule appeared thinner in mallard than in gull with mean thickness of 80.52±6. 38μm and 86.23± 7. 14μm respectively, and the diameters of central veins differed where mallard has 461.15 ± 11.25 μm and gull carried 387.42 ± 9.06 μm size. These morphological and histological features highlight fundamental differences in these species can be used as species-identification markers.
In search of a critical habitat concept for woodland caribou, boreal population

A hierarchical approach to critical habitat identification has been proposed in the draft National Recovery Strategy for the Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), Boreal Population. This approach proposes that critical habitat for boreal caribou be identified as equivalent with caribou ranges and their composite range components, and that it be consistent with the biological needs of a wild, self-sustaining local population of woodland caribou. These components include seasonal ranges, high use areas and calving sites, each of which provide for important ecological functions and are subject to specific risks from human development activities. Protection of critical habitat is accomplished through management of the amount and type of human developments and potential natural disturbances, not by prohibiting all activity. This approach to critical habitat sets the stage for management and monitoring of habitat at spatial and temporal scales appropriate for conservation of a wide ranging species such as woodland caribou.
Evaluation of Transplanting Date and Nitrogen Fertilizer Rate Adapted by Farmers to Toposequential Variation ofEnvironmental Resources in a Mini-Watershed (Nong) in Northeast Thailand

Environmental resources for rainfed rice production show large variability even within a small area in Northeast Thailand, and it is said that farmer’s management is well adapted to the variability. This study evaluated transplanting date and nitrogen (N) fertilizer rate in the management to improve rice productivity. The effect of transplanting date and N fertilizer rate on rice productivity was analyzed by investigating rice growth, and also by dividing rainfed rice fields located in a mini-watershed into 4 subecosystems: (1) medium deep water, waterlogged (MDW), (2) shallow water, favorable (SWf), (3) shallow water, drought- and submergence-prone (SWds), and (4) shallow water, drought-prone (SWd). Rice grew at almost a constant rate until maturity and the growth rate was higher at a lower field. The difference in productivity was derived from not only a water condition but also soil fertility, and was associated with the rate of N uptake. Small leaf area index was found to be one of the causes for low productivity in rice. Statistic analysis showed that earlier transplanting increased biomass production in all subecosystems. The biomass-increase resulted in a higher yield in SWds and SWd fields while it resulted in a reduced harvest index (HI) and did not increase yield in MDW and SWf fields. The effect of N fertilizer was apparent in the field where rice biomass was small due to later transplanting or unfertile soil, but the effect was generally small. Earlier transplanting in upper fields and later transplanting in lower fields in mini-watersheds were suggested to improve rice production, and proper distribution of N fertilizer use is considered necessary.
Mining Aspects on the Social Network

This paper proposes an effective concept of mining the feedback of product given by the user. In return various solutions are suggested according to the ratings of the aspect and its corresponding weightage. The satisfaction of user is determined by the help of user’s rating and weight of the aspect determines the significance of each aspect in the user’s review. These methodologies are thus, important and play a significant role for the manufacturers and producers to improvise their product and eventually leading to rise in the market value of that particular product. The methodology here extracts the aspects from the feedbacks of users with the help of conditional probability and bootstrap technique. Also an approach that is supervised and is called by the name, Naïve Bayes is used to classify aspect ratings and the sentiment words are considered as properties or features.
Isozyme variation in roe deer in relation to their population history in Britain

The level of genetic variation in 245 roe deer (Cupreolus cupreolus L.), taken from 15 populations across Britain, was estimated by investigating electrophoretic polymorphism at 15 enzyme loci. The proportion of polymorphic loci and the average heterozygosity of roe deer in Britain were estimated as 13.3% and 3.2%, respectively. Allele frequencies at one locus suggested the existence of an east-west cline of an allelic variant in southern Britain which may have originated from an introduction of roe from continental Europe in the last century. These results are discussed in relation to the theoretical expectations for this species and the documented historical background of roe deer inBritain.
Improved Spike-Based Brain-Machine Interface Using Bayesian Adaptive Kernel Smoother and Deep Learning

Multiunit activity (MUA) has been proposed to mitigate the robustness issue faced by single-unit activity (SUA)-based brain-machine interfaces (BMIs). Most MUA-based BMIs still employ a binning method for estimating firing rates and linear decoder for decoding behavioural parameters. The limitations of binning and linear decoder lead to suboptimal performance of MUA-based BMIs. To address this issue, we propose a method which consists of Bayesian adaptive kernel smoother (BAKS) as the firing rate estimation algorithm and deep learning, particularly quasi-recurrent neural network (QRNN), as the decoding algorithm. We evaluated the proposed method for reconstructing (offline) hand kinematics from intracortical neural data chronically recorded from the primary motor cortex of two non-human primates. Extensive empirical results across recording sessions and subjects showed that the proposed method consistently outperforms other combinations of firing rate estimation algorithm and decoding algorithm. Overall results suggest the effectiveness of the proposed method for improving the decoding performance of MUA-based BMIs.
Epiphytic cyanobacterial diversity in the sub-Himalayan belt of Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India

Cyanobacteria constitute the largest, most diverse and widely distributed group of prokaryotes that perform oxygenic photosynthesis. These are known to comprise a diverse flora of morphologically distinct forms. Some species are epiphytic occurring on a variety of plants. The present study was undertaken to study the distribution pattern of epiphytic cyanobacterial flora in the foot-hills of Garhwal Himalaya. An extensive survey was carried out in different seasons at four cyanobacteria-rich localities (Dakpatthar, Kotdwar, Rishikesh and Laldhang) of Uttarakhand state of India. A total of 39 epiphytic cyanobacterial taxa (12 heterocystous and 27 non-heterocystous) belonging to 2 orders, 7 families and 17 genera were recorded from this region. Highest number of species (25) was reported from Rishikesh, followed by Kotdwar with 14 species and Laldhang and Dakpatthar each with 12 species. Principal Component Analysis showed significant variation for epiphytic cyanobacterial diversity among studied sites, whereas cluster analysis categorized epiphytic cyanobacterial diversity under two categories, viz. Cluster I with 9 species and Cluster II with 30 species. Study concludes that variation in epiphytic cyanobacterial diversity might be compared to physicochemical properties of soil and climatic conditions along altitudes. doi: http://dx.doi. org/10.3126/botor.v8i0. 5955 Botanica Orientalis – Journal of Plant Science (2011) 8: 77-89
Less for More: The Structural Effects of Lean Manufacturing Practices on Sustainability of Manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia

As one of the important determinants of the health of the global economy, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are responsible for several environmental degradations. The increase in resource consumption, climate change, biodiversity, water scarcity, and demographic changes and instability triggered society to consider sustainability issues. One of the operational initiatives related to sustainability is lean manufacturing (LM), which has become an imperative factor of organizational excellence in today’s volatile competitive market. However, it remains a critical question, does it positively affect corporate sustainability? This quantitative cross-sectional study examined the impact of LM on the triple bottom line (3BL) dimensions. A total of 159 manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia participated in this study. The analysis using the structural equation modeling (SEM) approach evidenced that the holistic implementation of LM practices contributes positively to all dimensions of 3BL. It implied that in order to enhance sustainability performance, SMEs should adopt the LM concepts holistically. This paper extends the boundary of knowledge by lessening the existing gaps in the literature to support the notion of potential implications LM on sustainability. Practitioners could grab benefits by understanding the critical initiatives and strategies towards the future sustainability of their businesses.
Reassessment of Lemoine's newly Discovered Types of Fossil Corallines (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) Preserved at the Muséum National D'histoire Naturelle, Paris

Abstract Madame Marie Lemoine was one of the most prolific taxonomists on fossil coralline red algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) during the 20th Century. She described three non-geniculate genera and over 90 species. Samples from all over the world were sent to her, and she usually sent them back to the collectors. Thus, a significant number of her types are housed in different institutions or might be lost. Some, however, are housed in the herbarium at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris (PC) where she worked for most of her life. We found the original material of nine fossil coralline species at PC: 1) three species from Haute-Savoie (France) [Lithothamnium moretii, Lithophyllum simplex and Jania nummulitica]; 2) five species from Albania [Lithothamnium corallinæforme, Lithothamnium bourcartii, Lithophyllum koritzæ, Lithophyllum sphæroides and Lithophyllum (? ) albanense]; and 3) one species from SW France but originally described from the Carpathian Mountains [Lithothamnium abrardii]. The aim of this paper is to reassess the newly discovered original material in a modern taxonomic perspective and to typify the species for which Marie Lemoine did not establish a holotype. Several of these species have been frequently reported by palaeophycologists. The species albanensis, either within Lithophyllum or Spongites, and Lithothamnion moretii are among the five most cited species of fossil corallines in the literature published during the XX century. Lithophyllum simplex is among the nine most cited fossil coralline species but its taxonomic circumscription cannot be confidently established because no reproductive structures can be identified in the type.