Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Correlation and path coefficient analysis in dolichos bean (Dolichos lablab L. var. Typicus Prain) genotypes

The present investigation was conducted at Vegetable Research Station, ARI, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad during August, 2016 to March, 2017. Thirty five genotypes were evaluated in Randomized Block Design with two replications evaluated for nineteen yield and yield contributing characters, which are diverse in origin. Correlation coefficient analysis revealed that Pod yield per plant exhibited positive significant correlation with vine length (0.511), number of pods per plant (0.494), pod weight (0.485), seed breadth (0.389), seed length (0.349), 100 dry seed weight (0.325), primary branches per plant (0.291), days to 50 percent flowering (0.254), days to first flowering (0.244) and pod length (0.240). Path analysis revealed that maximum positive direct effect on pod yield per plant was exhibited through pod weight (0.440) followed by protein content (0.235). Positive direct effect of primary branches per plant (0.229) on pod yield per plant was moderate. The direct negative effects on pod yield were observed by days to first flowering, days to last pod harvest and 100 dry seed weight.
Abundance of rhabditid nematodes in agricultural soil of Khorramabad, Iran

This study was undertaken to evaluate the factors affecting the abundance of rhabditid nematodes in the farms of Khorramabad city of Lorestan province, Iran. Nematode communities as well as rhabditids population reacted to the soil pH and the type of crops cultivated at each sample point. Crop type affected nematode populations mainly due to their root systems. Also, the abundance of r habditid nematodes decreased at lower pH of the soil. Since some of the nematodes are entomopathogenic hence, results of the present study are important in terms of biological control of soil pests which leads to preservation of agro-ecosystem through less use of chemical pesticides and achievement of a sustainable agriculture.
Combining ability analysis for yield and quality traits in single cross hybrids of quality protein maize (Zea mays L.) using diallel mating design.

Forty-five single-cross hybrids developed (in rabi 2014) from ten inbred lines of quality protein maize through diallel mating design along with four checks viz., Pratap QPM Hybrid- 1, Vivek QPM- 9, HQPM- 1 and HQPM-5 were evaluated in randomized block design with three replications for yield and quality traits during kharif-2014, to estimate the gca (general combining ability) of the parents and sca (specific combining ability) of hybrids considered for the development of high yielding varieties. The analysis of variance for combining ability revealed significant mean sum of squares due to gca and sca for all the traits, except mean sum of square due to gca for num-ber of grain rows per ear. Ratio of Iƒ2 sca / Iƒ 2 gca was greater than one for all the traits, thereby indicating the preponderance of non-additive gene effects in the expression of these traits. Inbred line P8 and P5 has been found good general combiner with highest magnitude of gca effects 10.46 and 8.89, respectively and high per se i.e. 52.33 g and 44.67 g, respectively for grain yield per plant and majority of traits. Hybrids P6xP8, P5xP8, P3xP5, P5xP7 and P1xP8 showed higher significant positive sca effects ranged from 25.66 to 34.59 along with good per se ranged from 98.00 to 107.67 g for grain yield per plant. These hybrids also exhibited significant positive sca effects for most of the yield and quality traits under study, indicating potential and may be used for exploiting hybrid vigour in in QPM hybrid breeding programmes.
Drinking patterns among Finns aged 60 years and over from the 1990s onwards

Aim: To analyse prevalence and trends in older people’s (60+) alcohol use in Finland in 1993–2018. Data and method: Data on people aged 65+ were obtained from the Health Behaviour and Health among the Finnish Elderly study (HBHFE) for the years 1993–2011 and from its successor the National FinSote Survey for the years 2013–2018. Data for 60–64-year-olds and for the reference group (20–59-year-olds) were obtained from the Health Behaviour and Health among the Finnish Adult Population (HBHFA) study for the years 1993–2011 and from the FinSote study for the years 2013–2018. Four measures were chosen to describe prevalence and trends in drinking patterns in five-year age groups among men and women aged 60+: prevalence of current drinking, prevalence of frequent drinking, typical amounts of drinking and prevalence of heavy episodic drinking (HED). Results: Regarding prevalence of current drinking and frequent drinking, older women have been catching up with men, but older men still consume larger amounts of alcohol per occasion. The long-lasting increase in the prevalence of current drinkers continued in most older female age groups into the 2010s, settled in most older male and some female age groups, and shifted downwards in the oldest male age groups. In most older male and female age groups, the increasing trend in frequent drinking continued to the present. Data on typical amounts consumed and HED were only available for 2013–2018. In that period those measures remained rather stable. Conclusion: More detailed research on drinking patterns among people aged 60+ years is needed for two reasons: older people’s drinking is a new cultural phenomenon and alcohol-related social and health harms are increasing in older age groups.
“I Still Love My Hood”: Passive and Strategic Aspects of Role Residual Among Former Gang Members

One important aspect of gang disengagement that has been largely overlooked is the role of identity in the time following membership. Research has shown that former gang members often retain social and emotional ties with their former gang peers and may experience role ambiguity as a result. Despite this, there has been virtually no examination of role residual—the lingering aspects of one’s former identity—that may exist among these individuals. Using life history interviews, the current study addresses this gap by examining role residual among a sample of 30 former gang members. A total of 25 participants (83%) identified three types of role residual—symbolic, demeanor, and worldview. In contrast to previous scholarship, role residual appeared to manifest as passive and strategic occurrences.
Seasonal variations of mercury levels and human health risk in vegetables from Arid Oasis (Shihezi city), Xinjiang, Northwest China

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the seasonal variations of mercury levels and human health risk in vegetables that were collected from farmland, home garden, and plastic greenhouse in summer and winter 2016 in Arid Oasis (Shihezi city), Xinjiang, Northwest China. The results showed that the levels of mercury in fresh vegetables were lower in winter (0.003–0.025 mg·kg−1) than in summer (0.001–0.035 mg·kg−1). Single factor pollution (P) in vegetables indicated that all vegetables were polluted in diverse levels. The exceeding rate in different vegetables was 0.00% to 88.89% in summer and 0.00% to 100% in winter compared with limits of pollutants in vegetables. The value of bio-concentration factor (BCF) revealed that the mercury absorption capacity of 10 species vegetables decreased in the following order: pea seedling > spinage > caraway > lettuces > pakchoi > celery > crowndaisy chrysanthemum > chives > spinach > shallot. The daily intake (DI) and target hazard quotient (THQ) of mercury for children (2–12 years), young adults (18–45 years), and quinquagenarian (>45 years) indicated that non-carcinogenic values were below the threshold values except one sampling sit from farmland around the industrial parks. Furthermore, the THQ of open field in summer was higher than plastic greenhouse in winter. Under the same pollution level, children had more non-carcinogenic risk than young adults and quinquagenarian.
Who Is Unhappy for Brexit? A Machine-Learning, Agent-based study on Financial Instability

In this paper, we assess the happiness cost of Brexit in the UK and the EU, using data from the Gallup World Poll. We implement a two-stage learning machine, using a naive Bayes classifier to extract happiness preferences of the population and then passing these onto an artificial neural network of attributes to generate dynamic happiness functions for each household, on an agent-based modelling framework. We find that there is a significant long-run cost in terms of both happiness and unemployment, which primarily affects the most vulnerable portion of the population. In addition, despite the expected instability in City's financial centre, the UK financial sector seems to be well equipped to deal with the repercussions, thus minimising the welfare costs for the country. Our findings extend the discussion of the economic costs of Brexit, by adding the welfare cost of the ensuing financial instability.
Inoculation treatments affect the migration and colonisation of rhizobia in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) plants

ABSTRACT Purpose: The purposes of this study were to characterise the migration and the colonisation dynamics of two different fluorescent-tagged rhizobia in various alfalfa tissues (especially in seeds); and also to develop efficient inoculation treatments to promote colonisation ability of target rhizobia in elite seed varieties. Materials and methods: Four treatments (root drench, root damaging and drench, root drench with matrine, and flower spray) were applied to inoculate alfalfa with two fluorescent-tagged rhizobia, Ensifer meliloti LZgn5f (gn5f) and Ensifer meliloti 12531f (12531f), at three different growth stages; bud, flower and pod stages. The migration and colonisation dynamics of the two fluorescent tagged rhizobia strains were monitored using UV lamp detection and a stereo fluorescence microscopy. Results: The results showed that both rhizobia strains mainly colonised the roots and could migrate to aerial tissues. In aerial tissues, when alfalfa plants were inoculated during the bud stage, both rhizobia strains mainly colonised the leaves and stems; during the flower stage, a spray inoculation treatment resulted in more 12531f colonising reproductive tissues, while during the pod stage, more rhizobial strains gn5f colonised seeds using the root drench with matrine treatment. Conclusions: These results indicate that endophytic rhizobia are natural inhabitants of internal regions of roots, stems, leaves and that the endophytes may arise from reproductive tissues, such as seeds. Understanding the population dynamics of endophytic rhizobia in alfalfa would considerably improve the survival of target rhizobia during seed transfer. Combining target endogenous rhizobial species with good alfalfa seed varieties may lead to the development of a novel breeding method.
COVID-19: A Study of Islamic and Scientific Perspectives

ABSTRACT This paper examines Islamic and Scientific sources to understand the perspectives of both worldviews about the plagues like COVID-19. Focusing primarily on the scientific worldview, it informs about the history, spread, and the treatment of the disease. Afterward, it explores Muslim scriptures bringing forth precepts suggested to cope with such disasters. It is argued that precautionary measures, including isolation, quarantine, sanitation, and necessary immunization recommended by the World Health Organization, are the religious duties of Muslims. Additionally, Islamic scriptures advise various spiritual practices to its adherents, saving them from problems such as depression and mental distortion.
INTERNATIONALIZATION OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTERS THROUGH THE ENGLISH ACCULTURATION STRATEGY

Purpose of the study: To explore the effectiveness of the English-speaking acculturation strategy in improving the English ability of school members so that they can internationalize the character of Islamic educational institutions. Methodology: Using a qualitative phenomenological approach, with observation, interview, and documentation as data collection techniques, and reduction, display, and conclusion become the stages of data analysis. The research sample of 255 teachers, employees, and students was determined purposively at Taman Islam Middle School, Sidoarjo, Indonesia. Main Findings: This study found that an English-speaking acculturation strategy was effective in improving the English-speaking ability of school residents (up 4.63 from target 3) so that the internationalization of the character of Islamic education institutions, innovative, was formed. Applications of this study: This study is useful to improve the quality and become a prototype of the actualization of the character of international education institutions, through the strategy of acculturation in English, especially in Islamic schools. Novelty: This study creates the basis and prototype for the actualization of international standard Islamic education institutions, through an English-speaking acculturation strategy. The principal’s policy requires the English to inspire its representatives, together formulate and realize an English acculturation program; inspire teachers, staff, and students to carry out various English-speaking acculturation activities both inside and outside the school. Cultivation of English becomes more effective. The English skills of teachers, employees, and students from the aspects of listening, grammar, reading, writing, and speaking have increased, so that the internationalization of Islamic institutional character, in the form of integrity, professionalism, innovation, responsibility, and example, can be formed more quickly.
SCGN Administration prevents Insulin Resistance and Diabetic Complications in High-Fat Diet Fed Animals

Secretagogin (SCGN) is poorly-studied secretory/cytosolic CaBP enriched in pancreatic β-cells. Recent studies implicated SCGN in diabetes; however, its function and therapeutic prospect remain uncharted. Based on the apparent synchrony of SCGN and insulin secretion (and its disruption in HFD-fed animals) and considering SCGN downregulation in Type 2 diabetes, we hypothesized that SCGN is a key regulator of insulin response. To test this, we administered rSCGN to HFD-fed animals. We here report that a novel SCGN-insulin interaction stabilizes insulin and potentiates insulin action. Moreover, a chronic rSCGN administration improves insulin response and alleviates obesity associated risk factors such as weight gain, liver steatosis and cholesterol imbalance in DIO animals. Beside the anti-diabetic effects, prolonged rSCGN treatment also induces β-cell regeneration. These effects seem to originate from SCGN mediated regulation of insulin concentration & function as validated in insulin-deficient STZ animals. Our results demonstrate the prospects of the therapeutic potential of SCGN against diabetes.
The effect of phytase source wheat middlings and citric acid on phosphorus utilization growth performance and carcass yield in broilers 240

A study was conducted to investigate the impact of phytase source, citric acid, and wheat middlings (WM) on growth performance, bone strength, carcass yield, and P release in broilers fed marginally-deficient P diets from d 21 to 55. The experiment consisted of 13 dietary treatments, which were replicated five times, where each replicate consisted of 20 birds and utilized the standard-curve methodology using monobasic potassium phosphate (KH2PO4) as the standard. Treatments were as follows: diets 1 to 4) corn –soybean meal (C-SBM) basal (0.13% iP) supplemented with graded levels (0, 0.04, 0.08, 0.12%) of KH2PO4; diets 5 to 8) as in diet 1 with 500 FTU/kg of phytase (E. coli (EP) or fungal (FP)) and two levels of citric acid (0 or 3 %); diet 9) as in diet 1 with 10% corn replaced by WM; and diets 10 to 13) as in diet 9 supplemented with 500 FTU/kg of phytase (EP or FP) and two levels of citric acid (0 or 3 %). Reducing dietary IP had no impact on growth performance. Phytase had the main effect of increasing weight gain in the grower and withdrawal phases (P < 0.05); weight gain was greater in broilers fed the EP diets compared to those fed the FP diets during the grower phase (P < 0.05). When all the periods were combined only broilers fed the EP diets had weight gains and feed efficiencies that were greater than broilers fed no supplemental phytase (P < 0.05). The inclusion of phytase had the main effect of increasing adjusted bone breaking strength (ABBS) and tibia ash (P < 0.05) and released at least 0.083% P. Broilers fed the FP diets had lower carcass yield, whereas broilers fed the EP diets had lower wing yield (P < 0.05). Citric acid had the main effect of increasing feed efficiency, ABBS, and tibia ash (P <0.05) when all the periods were combined. Phytase and citric acid released at least 0.100% P, whereas the inclusion of WM alone released 0.051% P using ABBS data. The combination of phytase and WM increased P release by 67% (P <0.05), whereas phytase, citric acid, and WM released at least 0.148% P.
Associations of cardiovascular function and structure with feed efficiency in beef cattle

Heart rate (HR) during rest and stress as a bovine feed efficiency proxy (residual feed intake; RFI) has potential to reduce environmental impact and feed costs. Further understanding of this association and its physiological basis will aid in HR proxy development. Objectives were to assess the relationships between cardiovascular function and structure traits, their relationships with RFI and carcass composition, and the variation in RFI they explained. Residual feed intake, HR, low-frequency power (LF), stroke volume indicator (SVI), cardiac output indicator (COI), blood volume (BV), oxygen-carrying capacity, heart structure, histomorphometry and carcass composition were determined in heifers, bulls and steers. Correlations amongst traits and with RFI were determined and RFI-dependent multiple regression models containing linear and quadratic effects were selected. Positive and negative effects of HR and LF within and across overnight, transport and abattoir recordings were observed. Of the oxygen-carrying capacity traits only mean corpuscular volume had a suggested positive effect on RFI (P ≤ 0.10). While carcass composition traits were only correlated with heart structure traits. Positive effects of overnight HR (P ≤ 0.10), BV (P ≤ 0.10), right ventricle thickness (P ≤ 0.01) and myocyte width (P ≤ 0.01) and negative effects of SVI (P ≤ 0.05) on RFI were observed. Furthermore, heart structure measures explained the largest amount of RFI variation (P ≤ 0.01). Relationships of HR with RFI are associated with changes in heart workload and HR regulation, while potentially reflecting differences in metabolic efficiency not oxygen-
Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Content Knowledge for Teaching the Concept of Function

This study examined secondary mathematics teachers' content knowledge for teaching the concept of function. Content knowledge, for the purpose of this study, includes the common content knowledge and specialized content knowledge domains of Ball and her colleagues' Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) framework. Data were collected through a 10-item questionnaire from 42 teachers practicing at fifteen different industrial vocational high schools in Ankara, Turkey. Findings revealed that most of the teachers placed a strong emphasis on the set correspondence and algebraic representations; found the uniqueness condition of functions very important for students to understand; and had a wide repertoire of examples of functions which constitute the uniqueness condition. The teachers' choice of examples mostly included giving set correspondence relations and checking whether they define a function. Additionally, a strong focus on the computational aspects associated with functions was evident. The teachers' understanding of the function concept might be influenced by the curricular materials, contextual factors, and high-stakes testing. The methodological and practical implications of these findings are discussed, and directions for future studies are offered.
Per‐stage growth rates of head and body sizes in scarab larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) decrease across ontogeny following a species‐specific pattern

It has been widely assumed that the stepwise increase in the exoskeleton size of larval insects approximately follows a geometric progression from instar to instar, known as Dyar's Rule. However, it is not clear whether the per‐instar increase in body size follows this rule. In insects, Dyar's Rule has been identified either by regressing the log‐scaled size on the instar number (log‐linear regression analysis) or by comparing the postmolt/premolt size ratio between instars (growth rate analysis). A previous study on the body mass of caterpillars showed the methodological pitfall that Dyar's Rule was statistically supported by log‐linear regression analysis, but not at all by growth rates analysis. I considered this concern here by examining the per‐stage growth rates of head and body sizes for larvae of the beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus using both methods and compared the resulting growth rates for body size within and between taxonomic orders. Dyar's Rule was statistically supported by the log‐linear regression analysis but not by growth rate analysis for both the head and body sizes in T. dichotomus. The body size growth rate in T. dichotomus decreased as the instar progressed. This developmental pattern was also found in reported data for the other six scarabs, but not in data for Lepidoptera or Hymenoptera. These findings confirm that the per‐stage growth rate of body size does not follow Dyar's Rule in a wide range of insects, and suggest that developmental change in the body size growth rate varies among insect groups.
Der Einfluss der Fütterung auf die Zusammensetzung des intra-muskulären Fettes des Musculus longissimus und verschiedener Fettdepots von Jungbullen der Rassen Ungarisches Grauvieh und Holstein Friesian – 1. Mitteilung: Fettsäurezusammensetzung

Abstract. Title of the paper: Effect of feeding on the composition of the intramuscular fat in longissimus muscle and different fatty tissues of Hungarian Grey and Holstein Friesian bulls. 1. Fatty acid profile The aim of this study was to analyse the effect of nutrition, genotype and nutrition x genotype interaction on the fatty acid composition of intramuscular fat from longissimus dorsi muscle and different fat deposits using Hungarian Grey cattle bulls (HG) in comparison to Holstein Friesian bulls (HF) kept under extensive and intensive conditions. The extensive group was kept on pasture and was fed a concentrate supplemented with linseed meal in the last month of the trial. The extensive diet influenced the linoleic and linolenic acid ratio and the CLA content of longissimus muscle more advantageous concerning human nutrition. The meat from HG contained more CLA and less n-6 fatty acids also in case of the intensive diet than that of HF bulls. In the fat deposits from HF the PUFA mainly the linoleic acid was in a significant higher proportion available, however in the fat deposits of HG was the percentage of linol- and linolenic acid favourable. The extensive nutrition resulted in a lower linoleic acid and a higher linolenic acid content in both breeds and all three fat deposits. The PUFA content in the fat samples was altered contrary in both analysed breeds because of the different diet. In case of the extensive UG was the PUFA higher in all three fat deposits. In conclusion, the fatty acid composition of beef can be modified favourably by extensive feeding and concentrate which is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, however the beef of Hungarian Grey has a more wholesome influence on human health, than that of Holstein-Friesian bulls.