Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Resource Conservation Technologies (RCTs) in rice- wheat production: An Overview

Rice-wheat cropping system is the pre-dominant cropping system in India, which is labor-intensive, water-intensive, capital-intensive, and energy-intensive and it has become less profitable as these resources have become scarcer. This could be exacerbated by deterioration of soil structure, declining underground water, and lower land and water productivity, all of which pose a threat to the country's long-term viability. Moreover, continuous use of traditional agricultural practices such as tillage and crop residue burning has depleted the soil resource base and exacerbated soil depletion, resulting in a reduction in crop production. Furthermore, rising fuel, fertilizer, and other input costs necessitate efficient resource management in agriculture. This collected review literature focuses on various resource saving yet efficient technologies that can be adopted in rice-wheat system for improving and sustaining higher yields. However, adoption of conservation tillage practices can significantly improve the systems productivity by improving SOC pools and it help directly in building–up of soil organic carbon, labile organic carbon fractions and improve the fertility status of soil and production sustainability in RW system.
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HIDEKAZU SUZUKI,1,3 FRANK A. DELANO,1 NEEMA JAMSHIDI,1 DAN KATZ,1 MIKIJI MORI,3 KENJIRO KOSAKI,1 ROBERTA A. GOTTLIEB,2 HIROMASA ISHII,3 AND GEERT W. SCHMID-SCHÖNBEIN1 1Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0412; 2Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California 92038; and 3Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
The Differential Binding Affinities of the Luteinizing Hormone (LH)/Choriogonadotropin Receptor for LH and Choriogonadotropin Are Dictated by Different Extracellular Domain Residues

The high degree of amino acid sequence homology and the divergent ligand binding affinities of the rat (r) and human (h) LH receptors (LHRs) allowed us to identify amino acid residues of their extracellular domain that are responsible for the different binding affinities of bovine (b) and hLH, and human choriogonadotropin (hCG) to the hLHR and rLHR. Because of the proposed importance of the -sheets of the leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) of the extracellular domain of the LHR on hormone binding, we examined 10 divergent residues present in these regions by analyzing two complementary sets of mutants in which hLHR residues were substituted with the corresponding rLHR residues and vice versa. These experiments resulted in the identification of a single residue (a Ile or Ser in the C-terminal end of LRR2 of the hLHR or rLHR, respectively) that is important for hLH binding affinity. Surprisingly, however, this residue does not affect hCG or for bLH binding affinity. In fact, the results obtained with bLH and hCG show that several of the divergent residues in the -sheets of LRR1–9 affect bLH binding affinity, but none of them affect hCG binding affinity. Importantly, our results also emphasize the involvement of residues outside of the -sheets of the LRRs of the LHR in ligand binding affinity. This finding has to be considered in future models of the interaction of LH/CG with the LHR. (Molecular Endocrinology 19: 1263–1276, 2005)
Providing Evidence of a Multiple-Process Model of Trust in Providing Evidence of a Multiple-Process Model of Trust in Automation Automation

This study focuses on the effects of human responses to computer automation aids. Previous research has shown that different types of automation errors (false alarms and misses) affect human trust in different ways. False alarms tend to negatively affect operator compliance, whereas misses tend to negatively affect operator reliance. Participants were asked to determine whether an enemy target was present or absent in a series of images, a task similar to what a UAV operator might be asked to perform. A diagnostic aid provided recommendations before participants viewed each image. Reliability and type of automation error were manipulated in order to provide data to determine which of four theoretical models is most accurate. Analyses provided conclusive evidence that a multiple-process theory of operator trust is the only model which accurately explains behavior outcomes in this type of situation. A discussion of theoretical and practical implications of this finding is included.
The Contribution of Supervision Implementation and Work Motivation toward the Performance of Elementary School Physical Education Teachers

Teacher performance plays an important role in cultivating a quality teaching and learning process. The improvement of teacher performance might be affected by several potential factors. This study investigated the contribution of supervision implementation and work motivation toward the performance of physical education teachers from elementary schools. There were 148 physical education teachers in Banjarmasin city involved in this study. The data collection was done by using questionnaires on supervision implementation, work motivation, and teacher performance. The data were analyzed by means of path analysis with Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The results of this study showed that the supervision implementation, teachers’ work motivation and performance perceived by the teachers were at moderate level. This study revealed that supervision implementation and work motivation contributed significantly to the performance of the teachers. This study suggests that the improvement of physical education teachers’ performance is influenced by supervision and work motivation.
GROWTH PERFORMANCE AND SOME BLOOD PARAMETERS OF GROWING JAPANESE QUAIL AS AFFECTED BY DIETARY TOTAL SULPHUR AMINO ACIDS LEVELS AND COPPER SUPPLEMENTATION

The present study has been conducted to investigate the effect of dietary total sulpher amino acids and copper administration on growth performance and some blood biochemical parameters of Japanese quail. A 3x3 factorial design was performed including three levels of total sulpher amino acids (TSAA) (0.75, 0.85 and 0.95%) and three levels of copper (CuSo4) supplementation (0,100 and 200 mg/kg diet) throughout the growing period (1-6 weeks of age). A total number of 405 unsexed one week old Japanese quail chicks were randomly distributed into nine treatment groups of 45 chicks each with 3 replicates of 15 chicks each. Chicks of all experimental groups had nearly the same initial average body weight and were not statistically different. Growth performance traits (live body weight (LBW), body weight gain (BWG), feed intake (FI) and feed conversion ratio (FCR)) were studied throughout the growing period. Results obtained indicated, significant (P<0.01) improvement in LBW at 6 weeks of age , BWG and FCR through 3-6 and 1-6 weeks of age in the group fed the diet containing 0.95% TSAA, comparing with those receiving 0.75% or 0.85% TSAA. Significant (P<0.05) decrease in FI was observed for the group fed the diet containing 0.75% TSAA through 1-6 weeks of age. Addition of copper to the diets of growing Japanese quail at levels 100 and 200 mg/kg diet, significantly improved all traits of growth performance comparatively with those receiving unsupplemented diets during 1-6 weeks of age. The interaction between diets containing 0.95% TSAA and 200 mg Cu Supplementation surpassed all other dietary treatments regard to all performance parameters. However, results showed that, TSAA level and copper supplementation had no significant effects on all carcass traits studied except only the gizzard. Blood contents of TP, Alb, Glb and glucose concentration significantly increased with the level of 0.95 and 0.85% TSAA, while there was no significant increase in A/G ratio among TSAA levels. Plasma protein profile did not show significant differences between the treatment groups at all levels of CuSO4 supplementation, while blood glucose had significantly increased with the level of 100 and 200 ppm of Cu. The activity of both AST and ALT significantly decreased at the level of 0.95% TSAA than the other levels, also significant variations between control and other treatments in the ALP activity were recorded. The lowest activity of the previous enzymes was observed at the level of 100 ppm copper sulphate, consequently it can be concluded that the levels of 0.95% TSAA and 200 mg copper sulphate are safe in Japanese quail feeding. It can be concluded that supplementation of Cu at 200 mg/kg and the dietary TSAA at level 0.95 % seemed to be the optimum levels. Chicks fed the diet containing 0.95% TSAA and 200 mg copper /kg diet had almost the best performance value, while the worst performance values were obtained in the group fed 0.75% TSAA without copper supplementation.
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Arai, Andrew E. , Claudia E. Kasserra, Paul R. Territo, Amir H. Gandjbakhche, and Robert S. Balaban. Myocardial oxygenation in vivo: optical spectroscopy of cytoplasmic myoglobin and mitochondrial cytochromes. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H683–H697, 1999. — The oxygenation state of myoglobin and the redox state of cytochrome c provide information on the PO2 in the cytosol and mitochondria, respectively. An optical ‘‘window’’ from ,540 to 585 nm was found in the pig heart in vivo that permitted the monitoring of myoglobin and cytochrome c without interference from Hb oxygenation or blood volume. Scanning reflectance spectroscopy was performed on the surgically exposed left ventricle of pigs. Difference spectra between control and a total left anterior descending coronary artery occlusion revealed maxima and minima in this spectral region consistent with myoglobin deoxygenation and cytochrome c and b reduction. Comparison of in vivo data with in vitro fractions of the heart, including Hb-free tissue whole heart and homogenates, mitochondria, myoglobin, and pig red blood cells, reveals minimal contributions of Hb in vivo. This conclusion was confirmed by expanding the blood volume of the myocardium and increasing mean Hb O2 saturation with an intracoronary infusion of adenosine (20 μg·kg21 ·min21), which had no significant effect on the 540to 585-nm region. These results also suggested that myoglobin O2 saturation was not blood flow limited under these conditions in vivo. Work jump studies with phenylephrine also failed to change cytochrome c redox state or myoglobin oxygenation. Computer simulations using recent physical data are consistent with the notion that myoglobin O2 saturation is . 92% under basal conditions and does not change significantly with moderate workloads. These studies show that reflectance spectroscopy can assess myocardial oxygenation in vivo. Myoglobin O2 saturation is very high and is not labile to moderate changes in cardiac workload in the openchest pig model. These findings indicate that myoglobin does not contribute significantly to O2 transport via facilitated diffusion under these conditions.
PHOSPHORUS FRACTIONS AS CORRELATED TO SOME SOIL PROPERTIES IN SOME SOIL SERIES OF EGYPT

Characterization study were carried out to evaluate the relationship between total, organic and inorganic P fractions and some physicochemical properties of six soil series representing the main soil types of Egypt (typic torri fluvents, typic haplucalcids and typic torri psaments). The obtained results could be summarized as follows: The inorganic P fractions, i.e, saloid, Al-P, Fe-P, occluded P and Ca-p in soil series varied from 2.85 to 22.8, 30 to 164, 8.2 to 28.0, 24.7 to 130.9, and 121 to 871 mg kg, respectively. Ca-P contributed to 71.5 % of total inorganic P and 1.13 % only for saloid P. The abundance of different inorganic P forms was in the order Ca-P> Occluded P > Al-P> Fe-P> saloid P suggesting that, Ca-P and occluded P are the major P fractions to contribute P nutrition by plants. The fractions of Ca-P and Occluded P found to be positively coinciding with CEC and OM and negatively with pH and CaCO3 responsible for P precipitation over P adsorption as CaCO3 and pH increased in soil. Whereas, Al-P fraction were mainly associated with clay and organic matter content of soils. The higher contents of organic P in the soils of Minia and Giza could be due to heavy later addition of P fertilizer and high organic matter as compare to other soil series. The inorganic P fractions contributed to 89.4 % of total P and 10.6 % only for organic P in the studied soil series. Total P content ranged from 255 to 1300 mg kg in South Tahrir and Giza. However, available P ranged from 6.65 to 29.2 mg kg depending on soil properties. In most soil series, soil content of available P is higher in Giza, Minia and Gazert Uddhab and marginal in Janaklis and South Tahrir. Highly significant positive correlation was found between available and total P of most of the studied soil and each of clay + silt, CEC, OM and available water, whereas significant negative correlation was found with sand and pH.
Retrospective Study of Prevalence and Pattern of Surgical Conditions Presented at the Ashanti Regional Veterinary Clinic, Kumasi, Ghana

Case records of animal patients presented for surgery at the Ashanti regional veterinary clinic, Kumasi, Ghana, within a seven year (1997-2013) period were studied for surgical disease prevalence and pattern among animal species. The age, sex and breeds, as well as, quarterly distribution of surgical cases were also evaluated. A gradual increase in numbers and types of surgical conditions were observed across the years studied, with the least prevalence in 2007 (2.6%) and the highest in 2013 (29.2%). Wounds /trauma cases were highest (41.0%) and vaginal prolapse least (0.1%) among surgical cases managed. Most surgical conditions were in canine species (96.0%), while the rest (3.8%) were in feline (2.4%), equine (0.5%), caprine (0.4%) and ovine (0.4%) species. Among the twenty–one dog breeds presented for surgical management, the local breed (mongrel) had the highest occurrence (40.2%) of surgical conditions, while the poodle (0.1%), Daschund (0.1%) and Labrador (0.1%) had the least. Male dogs (57%) were presented more for surgery than females (35%). Also, younger dogs (57%) had more surgeries than adult dogs (35%). Most surgical cases were presented in the fourth quarter (October–December) (31.4%) and the least in the second quarter (April –June) (18.5%). The implications of the data to regional, national and global planning and training of Veterinarians on animal surgical disease management were discussed.
NDT_A_320072 2481..2487

*These authors contributed equally to this work Purpose: Post-stroke depression (PSD) is one of the emotional disorders after the onset of stroke. Many studies have indicated that inflammatory processes can promote the occurrence and development of PSD. The purpose of our study was to explore the potential relationship between PSD and two inflammatory biomarkers: inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and macrophage inflammatory protein 1α (MIP-1α). Methods: In total, 80 patients diagnosed with depression after the first-ever acute ischemic stroke were enrolled in PSD group consecutively. During the same period, 40 non-depressed patients following the first-ever acute ischemic stroke and 40 healthy control subjects were recruited as non-PSD group and normal group, respectively. All participants have performed serum iNOS and MIP-1α level examination with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The severity of depressive symptoms was evaluated by the 24-item Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD-24). Results: Serum iNOS and MIP-1α levels were significantly higher in PSD group than those in non-PSD and normal groups (P < 0.001). Serum iNOS and MIP-1α levels of PSD patients with varying degrees of depression were significantly different, serum iNOS and MIP-1α levels became higher as the depressive symptoms became more severe (P < 0.05). There was a positive correlation between the elevated levels of iNOS, MIP-1α and HAMD scores (r = 0.262, 0.209, P < 0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that both serum iNOS and MIP1α levels were independently associated with PSD (OR = 2.790, 95% CI: 0.712–10.933, P < 0.05 and OR = 1.922, 95% CI: 0.648–9.815, P < 0.05, respectively) after adjustment for possible relevant confounders. Conclusion: High serum levels of iNOS and MIP-1α were found to be associated with the development of PSD and closely related to its severity.
CMAR_A_321402 6045..6053

1Clinical Medical College of Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Transfusion, Xiang’an Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361101, People’s Republic of China; 3The Central Laboratory, Wuhan No.1 Hospital, the Hospital of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Affiliated to Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, 430022, People’s Republic of China
Touboulic, A. and Matthews, L. and Marques, L. (2018) On the road to carbon reduction in a food supply network: a complex adaptive systems perspective. Supply Chain Management . ISSN 1359-8546

Purpose: In acknowledging the reality of climate change, large firms have set internal and external (supplier oriented) targets to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study explores the complex processes behind the evolution and diffusion of carbon reduction strategies in supply networks. Design/methodology/approach: The research uses complex adaptive systems (CAS) as a theoretical framework and presents a single case study of a focal buying firm and its supply network in the food sector. A longitudinal and multilevel analysis is used to discuss the dynamics between the focal firm, the supply network and external environment. Findings: Rather than being a linear and controlled process of adoption-implementationoutcomes, the transition to reduce carbon in a supply network is much more dynamic, emerging as a result of a number of factors at the individual, organizational, supply network and environmental levels. Research limitations/implications: The research considers the emergence of a carbon reduction strategy in the food sector, driven by a dominant buying firm. Future research should seek to investigate the diffusion of environmental strategies more broadly and in other contexts. Practical implications: Findings from the research reveal the limits of the control that a buying firm can exert over behaviours in its network and show the positive influence of consortia initiatives on transitioning to sustainability in supply networks. Originality: CAS is a fairly novel theoretical lens for researching environmental supply network dynamics. The paper offers fresh multilevel insights into the emergent and systemic nature of the diffusion of environmental practices in supply networks.
Similarity Checking Of Keypoints For Identification Of Copy-Move Forgery (SCK-ICMF)

In the advanced world of technologies, pictorial data is also one of the important data source to represent information to the world. A pictorial data can be an information about an incident took place; it can be an evidence to the judgmental courts and so on. As the technology is getting advanced for capturing those digital image data, the misuse of those data is also increasing by manipulating those digital image data. There are many techniques to modify or manipulate the digital image data such as copy-move, scaling and rotating, translation of the image and resizing of the image, etc. that can be used for falsifying the right information as wrong. Thus, to find out whether there is any manipulation in the image or not, there are many methodologies present to detect the forgery of the image. As the up-to-dated methodologies are not accurate to identify the forgery in the soft and minor regions, we are implementing a new methodology known as “ Similarity Checking of Keypoints for Identification of Copy-Move Forgery (SCK-ICMF) ”. Here we are aiming to check the similar keypoints even in the soft and minor regions. We are using “Copy-Move-Forgery-Detection” D0-dataset to evaluate the results of our designed methodology known as “ Similarity Checking of Keypoints for Identification of Copy-Move Forgery (SCK-ICMF) ” and compare with the different state-of-art methodologies to show the efficiency of our implemented methodology.
COPD_A_240303 995..1004

Jill A Ohar 1 Ayca Ozol-Godfrey Thomas Goodin Shahin Sanjar 2 1Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; 2Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc., Marlborough, MA, USA Purpose: The clinical manifestation of COPD can differ by gender, with women experiencing worse lung function and health-related quality of life than men. Additionally, women tend to report more symptoms given the same disease severity. Accordingly, the impact of gender on efficacy and safety in patients with moderate-to-very-severe COPD was examined following 12 weeks of nebulized glycopyrrolate (GLY) 25 μg twice daily (BID) or placebo. Patients and Methods: GLY and placebo pooled data from the replicate 12-week GOLDEN 3 and 4 studies (n=861) were grouped by gender. Endpoints reported were change from baseline in trough forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) and EXAcerbations of COPD Tool-Respiratory Symptoms (EXACT-RS) total scores. Safety was evaluated by reviewing the incidence of adverse events (AEs) and serious AEs. Results: Men (placebo: 54.7%; GLY: 56.1%) were generally older with a greater proportion of high cardiovascular risk and use of background long-acting β2-agonists or inhaled corticosteroids. GLY treatment resulted in significant, clinically important improvements in trough FEV1, regardless of gender. Patients treated with GLY reported significant improvements in SGRQ total score, irrespective of gender; however, the improvement was numerically higher in women. Although EXACT-RS improved in both genders, only women experienced a significant improvement. Overall, GLY was well tolerated with a numerically lower incidence of AEs in men than women. Conclusion: Treatment with nebulized GLY resulted in lung function, SGRQ total score, and EXACT-RS total score improvements regardless of gender. However, only EXACT-RS showed significantly greater improvements in women compared with men. Treatment with GLY was generally well tolerated across genders. These data support the efficacy and safety of GLY 25 μg BID in patients with moderate-to-very-severe COPD, independent of gender. Gender similarities in airflow improvement and differences in symptom-reporting augment the evidence supporting the consideration of individualized treatment plans for COPD patients.