Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Product Quality, Price and Promotion on Purchasing Decisions

Currently in the mobile phone business going on a very tight competition, any company or operator ofa mobile card issuing competing to create various alternatif option to influence purchasing decisionsand win the competition. This study aims to test the effect of product quality, price, and promotion onpurchasing decisions. The number of samples in this study were 100 Gresik Telkomsel consumers.Analysis of the data used is multiple linear regression analysis. The results of this study concluded thatthe results of simultaneous testing of product quality, price, and promotion of purchasing decisions.The results of partial testing of product quality have a significant effect on purchasing decisions, priceshave a significant effect on purchasing decisions, and promotions have a significant effect onpurchasing decisions.
Studies on the chromosome numbers of ferns from Kolli Hills, Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India

ABSTRACT The chromosomal observations were carried out on 66 taxa collected from Kolli Hills belongs to 38 genera and 20 families. Sixty two ferns were studied cytologically for the first time in this study area. The present study has revealed the presence of 32 sexual diploids, 20 sexual tetraploids, 2 apogamous tetraploids, 9 sexual octoploids, 2 apogamous triploids and one 12-ploid sexual species. The sexuality of polyploids has also been calculated. The maximum number of chromosomes (n=171) were observed in Adiantum hispidulum while a minimum number of chromosomes (n=30) were in Adiantum latifolium, Cheilanthes tenuifolia and Pellaea boivinii. About the 20 genera were observed to be with more than one base number and remaining 18 genera with a single base number.
Effect of Feedingarginine on the Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, Relative Expression of Lipogenic Genes, and Blood Parametersof Arian Broilers

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of different dietary levels of L-arginine on the growth performance, blood parameters, and lipogenic gene expression of Arian broiler chickens. For this purpose, 168 Arian broiler chicks (40.33±1.7 g) were assigned to four treatments with three replicates of14 birds each, according to completely randomized design. The experimental treatments consisted of 100, 124, 139, and 154% dietary arginine levels relative to the published requirements of Arian broilers. On 42 d of the experiment, blood samples were collected from two birds (six birds per treatment) for blood metabolite measurements. These birds were then euthanized for carcass evaluation and collection of tissue samples. Increasing dietary arginine levels reduced (p<0.05) the gene expression of fatty acid synthase, acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase, and malic enzyme in the liver and lipoprotein lipase in the abdominal fat tissue, as well as abdominal fat relative weight. Increasing dietary arginine levels significantly increased (p<0.05) body weight, feed efficiency, carcass yield, breast and thigh relative weights, and glucose and HDL (highdensity lipoprotein) blood levels, and reduced cholesterol, triglyceride, and LDL (low-density lipoprotein) blood levels. Since almost similar performance and carcass trait results were obtained both with 124 and 139% arginine levels, supplying Arian broiler diets with 124% arginine is suggested.
The evolutionary history of Mediterranean Batoidea (Chondrichthyes: Neoselachii)

Batoidea (rays, skates and their relatives) is the largest group included in the subclass Elasmobranchii. Mediterranean Batoidea fauna is relatively diverse, characterised by a history of isolation and connectivity resulting from tectonic movements and changes in ocean circulation. The evolutionary histories of Batoidea species in the Mediterranean were estimated from two mitochondrial markers (COI and NADH2) through dating and Bayesian analyses. Additionally, two species delimitation analyses (Poisson Tree Process and General Mixed Yule Coalescent) were conducted to elucidate species boundaries. The relationship between Raja species—their ecological traits and species level phylogeny—was also studied to understand speciation in this genus. Results concerning the phylogenetic relationship between Batoidea species were largely consistent with recent molecular studies. Divergence times show a parallel evolutionary history of Batoidea fauna and Mediterranean history, which began from the Triassic. Three important speciation events were detected (a) throughout the Jurassic, when the major lineages were split (b) at the Eocene–Oligocene, when almost all genera of Batoidea were branched, and (c) during the Miocene, when almost all current species of Batoidea derived. These diversification events correspond to crucial paleoclimatic and paleogeographical events that took place at the global and local scale. Phylogenetic and species delimitation analyses revealed the presence of 18 species. Raja species showed different ecological preferences related to depth and habitat, which indicated a genus speciation process driven by different habitat characteristics.
Teor e capacidade mxima de adsoro de arsnio em Latossolos brasileiros

In view of the toxicity of As for man and animals and the possibility of existence of a great number of contaminated areas it is imperative to know the total As content in soils considered uncontaminated and about As sorption processes in soils of variable charge. The objective of this work was to determine the total content and maximum capacity of As adsorption (CMADSAs) in Oxisols. The total content was determined by the USEPA 3051A method. The cmADSAs was determined by the Langmuir Isotherms using six solution concentrations (0, 0.09, 0.19, 0.38, 0.76, 1.15 mmol L-1) (1:100 soil: solution ratio), pH values 5.5 and ionic strength 15 mmol L-1. In the 17 Oxisols the average total As content was 5.92 mg kg-1 and mean cmADSAs was 2.013 mg kg-1. Clay, and Fe and Al oxides content influenced cmADSs positively.
Investigating the effect of Azospirillum brasilense and Rhizobium pisi on agronomic traits of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

ABSTRACT Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) play an important role in improving crop growth but have not been studied sufficiently. A wire house experiment was conducted in Pakistan to determine the combined effect of inoculating wheat seeds with PGPR on the subsequent growth and yield of the wheat. The experiment included four treatments: T0 – no-inoculation (control), T1 – Azospirillum brasilense inoculation, T2 – Rhizobium pisi inoculation and T3 – co-inoculation with A. brasilense and R. pisi. Development and growth attributes, as well as final yield of wheat, were studied. Co-inoculation of seeds with both strains increased significantly wheat grain yield, the number of grains per plant and 1000-grain weight by 36%, 11% and 17%, respectively, compared to non-inoculated control. While crop growth rate increased for, respectively, 5.5% and 33% at tillering and flag leaf stages, corresponding values for T3 were about 9% and 14% higher than values for sole inoculations in T1 and T2. Co-inoculation also significantly increased leaf epicuticular wax and relative water content as compared to the control treatment. Thus, inoculation of wheat seeds with A. brasilense and R. pisi and their combination is a promising method to improve growth, yield and quality of wheat.
Classification of “nabana” (Brassica rapa) cultivars and landraces based on simple sequence repeat markers

Brassica rapa or B. napus vegetables for eating as young inflorescences and stalks are called “nabana”. Japanese nabana includes “flower-bud type” and “stem-and-leaf type”. Chinese and European types are also known (cai-xin, zicaitai, and broccoletto). We classified nabana belonging to B. rapa and other B. rapa vegetables. In a simple sequence repeat-based phylogram, 49 ingroup samples were classified into four groups (I–IV). Flower-bud and stem-and-leaf types were separated into groups I and III, respectively, with a slight overlap in group II. Cai-xin and non-heading Chinese cabbages were included in group IV. Broccoletto was placed in group III, close to turnips. Zicaitai cultivars were included in group II. We tested for clubroot resistance (CR) and its marker genotypes in nabana because of their agronomical importance. Ten cultivars were resistant to group 4 pathogen but not to group 2. Most of the CR cultivars had heterozygous resistance alleles in the CRb and Crr1 loci, consistent with inoculation tests. Our results suggest that Japanese nabana lines and foreign types were differentiated according to their consumption parts and cultivar origins, respectively. This study elucidates the relationships and CR properties of nabana and provides valuable information for the breeding of nabana cultivars.
“Sleeper” Antiquities: Misattributions in Sales of Ancient Art

Abstract: “Sleepers” are artworks or collectibles that are undervalued because one or more characteristics go unrecognized. This article discusses 12 sleepers that have been sold at auction on the antiquity market since 2007 whose attribution as antiquities were originally overlooked, either accidentally or deliberately. The objects are presented in the context of a theoretical framework describing both the legal and economic incentives to perform due diligence and to reveal, or “awaken,” a sleeper antiquity. The theory implies that sleepers may arise for several reasons, and the case studies are grouped accordingly. Most pressingly, the analysis identifies two ways in which sellers are disincentivized to be transparent about an object’s identity: when they can exploit legal loopholes to deliberately misattribute an antiquity and mediate export and when they can hide disagreement about an object’s authenticity to mediate its sale. Placing the case studies in the broader market context, we highlight particular areas that should be addressed by policy or regulatory reform. The analysis also has wider applications to other forms of art.
Population structure inferred from COI data analyses for Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the Karnataka region of India

ABSTRACT The Oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) causes tremendous losses in mango (Mangifera indica L.), its high level of polyphagy coupled with the ability to complete overlapping generations and mobility made this insect pest a unique example to study its population genetic diversity at both spatial and temporal levels. However, the genetic diversity and phylogeographic structure of B. dorsalis at regional level remain to be unexplored. We analysed the genetic diversity and population structure of B. dorsalis throughout the Karnataka region. Results revealed the existence of abundant haplotypes as well as nucleotide diversity in Tumkur and Kolar populations that showed high similarity to the neighbouring states viz., Vellore of Tamil Nadu and Chittoor of Andhra Pradesh. Genetic diversity indices [number of Haplotypes, haplotype diversity (Hd), nucleotide diversity (π), polymorphic sites (S) and the average number of pairwise nucleotide differences (k)] across Karnataka maintain high levels of genetic diversity at different geographic locations. All haplotypes were monophyletic and have a significant phylogeographic structure (Nst>Gst; P < 0.05). The star-like median-joining network of haplotypes distribution implied that most of the fruit flies derived from relicts and subsequently fragmented. Further, the neutrality tests and mismatch distribution analysis confirmed that B. dorsalis underwent a recent demographic expansion.
Evaluation of Sensory Silage Quality, Chemical Composition and in vitro Digestibility of Tef (Eragrostis tef) Straw Inoculated with Effective Microorganisms (EM) at different Application Rates and Ensiled for different Durations

1 Haramaya University, P.O Box 138, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. E-mail: tibemanaye @gmail. com phone: +251 934835334 2 Addis Ababa University, College of Veterinary Medicine, P.O Box 34, Bishoftu, Ethiopia. E-mail: mengistuashenafi@ gmail. com; Mobile phone: +251 916821367 3 Hawasa University, School of Animal and Range Sciences, College of Agriculture, P. O. Box 222, Hawassa, Ethiopia. E-mail: atolera @yahoo. com 4 11 Stewart Crescent , Armidale, NSW 2350, Australia. E-mail: ghgeesink @gmail. com; phone: +614 3942 3873
Advances in in vitro folliculogenesis in domestic ruminants

Abstract The in vitro follicle culture (IVFC) represents an outstanding tool to enhance our understanding of the control of folliculogenesis and to allow the future use of a large number of immature oocytes enclosed in preantral follicles (PFs) in assisted reproductive techniques in humans as well as in others mammalian species including the ruminants. So far, the best results of IVFC were reported from mice with the production of live offspring from primordial follicles cultured in vitro. Live birth has been obtained after the in vitro culture of bovine early antral follicles. However, in other ruminant species, these results have been limited to the production of a variable number of mature oocytes and low percentages of embryos after in vitro culture of goat, buffalo and sheep isolated secondary preantral follicles. The present review presents and discusses the main findings, limitations, and prospects of in vitro folliculogenesis in ruminants focusing on bovine, caprine, and ovine species.
The Effects of Licorice (Glycyrrhriza glabra) Root on Performance, Some Serum Parameters and Antioxidant Capacity of Laying Hens

I Niğde Omer Halisdemir University, Faculty of Agricultural Science and Technologies, Department of Animal Production and Technologies, Nigde, Turkey. II Cukurova University, Agriculture Faculty, Department of Animal Science, Adana, Turkey. III Trakya University, Arda Vocational School, Department of Food Processing, Edirne,Turkey. IV Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hatay,Turkey. V Cyprus International University, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Department of Plant Production, Nicosia/North Cyprus.
Effect of Tax Incentives on Foreign Direct Investments in the East African Community

The use of tax incentives has tremendously grown since the early 90’s due to globalization and creation of common markets through regional integration. The logic behind granting tax incentives is to offer potential enterprises opportunities to invest where taxes are seen as impediments. Tax incentives are meant to foster investments into particular economic sectors or industries that are identified as crucial areas of development including export oriented sectors, mining and industrial parks. On the other hand, Foreign Direct Investment is widely regarded as an integral factor in fostering growth and advancement in both advanced and transitional economies. The study aimed to find how tax incentive affects the foreign direct investment by paying attention to the East African Community bloc. The study used the random effect panel model to carry out this investigation. The study concludes that Tax incentive significantly affects foreign direct investment in the East African Community.
Weakly supervised learning for image classification and potentially moving obstacles analysis

Dans le contexte des applications de perception pour le vehicule a conduite deleguee, l’interet pour les approches d’apprentissage automatique a continuellement augmente pendant cette derniere decennie. Cependant, lorsque ces approches doivent etre discriminatives, elle necessitent generalement d’apprendre sur des donnees manuellement annotees. L’annotation manuelle a un cout non negligeable, tandis que les donnees non annotees peuvent etre facilement obtenues dans le contexte d’un vehicule autonome equipe de capteurs. Il se trouve qu’une categorie de strategies d’apprentissage, dite d’apprentissage faiblement supervise, permet d’exploiter des donnees partiellement labelisees. Ainsi, nous avons pour objectif dans cette these de reduire autant que possible le besoin de labelisation manuelle en proposant des techniques d’apprentissage faiblement supervisees.
Plant composition and diversity in a semi-natural Mediterranean island landscape: the importance of environmental factors

Abstract Islands crucially contribute to the Mediterranean Basin’s high floristic diversity, which, however, is at risk facing climate and land-use changes. Besides the identification of highly diverse areas, the knowledge about factors favouring diversity is of great importance. We analysed plant species diversity and composition related to environmental factors over varied vegetation units on a former Italian prison island in the northwest of Sardinia. Due to a long history of land use with grazing and later abandonment the nowadays protected island features a semi-natural landscape and can serve as an example for strongly anthropogenic altered insular ecosystems. Floristic composition, soil properties, microclimate and ungulate abundance were assessed. Relationships of vegetation composition and diversity with abiotic variables were examined by Canonical Correspondence Analysis, which indicated the importance of air temperature, soil moisture, slope gradient and C/N ratio for floristic differentiation. Most important abiotic factors for plant species richness were relative air humidity and soil moisture, while floristic diversity was mainly determined by air temperature and pH. Furthermore, observation data pointed to an adverse influence of ungulate abundance for plant species diversity. Regarding nature conservation, grazing intensity thus must be critically taken into account, especially for sensitive vegetation units like the coastal garrigue.
Role of Agmatine on Neuroglia in Central Nervous System Injury

• The primary amine agmatine is neuroprotective after central nervous system (CNS) injury. • The agmatine downregulates the astrogliosis following the CNS injury. • Agmatine attenuates the detrimental effects of activated microglia in CNS injury. • Agmatine regulates the astrogliosis and microgliosis via modulating the bone morphogenic proteins expression. Brain Neurorehabil. 2019 Mar;12(1):e2 https://doi.org/10.12786/bn.2019. 12.e2 pISSN 1976-8753·eISSN 2383-9910
Effect of different pre-treatments on physico-chemical parameters of raisins prepared from variety Thompson Seedless.

D.K. KAKADE Directorate of Groundnut Research (ICAR), Ivnagar Road, JUNAGADH (GUJARAT) INDIA ABSTRACT The present investigation was carried out at the Post Graduate Laboratory of the Department of Horticulture, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh during the year 2008. The experiment consisted of 3 levels of olive oil concentrations viz., 0.5%, 0.1%, and 1.5% and 3 levels of potassium carbonate concentrations viz., 2.0%, 4.0%, and 6.0% and control, there were 10 treatment combinations employed in this study. Fully ripened, fresh, healthy, uniform size, shape and colour berries of Thompson seedless variety were taken for experiment. The berries treated with different treatments for 3 minutes at 42C and treated berries were subjected to shade drying for 8-17 days. The dehydrated grape raisins were packed in polythene bags and kept at ambient conditions. The experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design with three replications. The dehydrated grape raisins samples were analyzed for various physical, biochemical and organoleptic changes. The results of the study indicated that, the combination of olive oil concentrations and potassium carbonate concentrations affect the quantitative and qualitative characteristics during the storage period. The treatment combination of olive oil 0.5% and potassium carbonate 4% concentrations, recorded the highest TSS, sugars, ascorbic acid and organoleptic score during the entire storage period. The chemical parameters viz., TSS, reducing sugar, total sugar content were increased with advancement and titrable acidity decreased during storage period. The organoleptic rating with regard to colour, texture, flavour, and taste was also found higher in the treatment combinations of olive oil 0.5% and potassium carbonate 4%. Among different treatments, T 10 (dipping (1.5% olive oil + 6.0 % K 2 CO 3 ) for 3 min. at 42C) recorded the highest recovery % with lowest dehydration ratio. From the present investigation it is clear that, for quality production of raisins (dried grape berries) from fresh grape berries under shade drying by using treatment olive oil of 0.5% and potassium carbonate 4% would be beneficial. The Asian Journal of Horticulture, (June, 2010) Vol. 5 No. 1 : 237-239 Research Paper
An Exploratory Study of Consumer Satisfaction and Purchase Behavior Intention of Fashion Subscription- Based Online Services (SOS)

Subscription-based online services (SOS) that provide fashion related products are of great interest to consumers and retailers alike. Yet, little is known about consumers who use or have used SOS. This study explored consumers’ motivations, expectations, satisfaction, and purchase behavior intentions regarding fashion SOS using an Expectation-Confirmation Theory (ECT) perspective. A qualitative research approach was utilized to collect interview data from a sample of 12 SOS customers. Findings revealed that consumers’ motivations to try fashion SOS were related to convenience, needing a wardrobe update, and curiosity about the service. Only five out of 12 participants were completely satisfied with fashion SOS that they used, and those participants agreed to receive a scheduled box delivery each month. Consumers liked the convenience of fashion SOS package delivery and ease of website navigation. They were much less satisfied with their fashion SOS experience in terms of the delivered product selection and product quality. Recommendations are provided for retailer competitive strategies with SOS business models and future research suggestions are proposed.
Climate Change and Phenological Mismatch in Trophic Interactions Among Plants, Insects, and Vertebrates

Phenological mismatch results when interacting species change the timing of regularly repeated phases in their life cycles at different rates. We review whether this continuously ongoing phenomenon, also known as trophic asynchrony, is becoming more common under ongoing rapid climate change. In antagonistic trophic interactions, any mismatch will have negative impacts for only one of the species, whereas in mutualistic interactions, both partners are expected to suffer. Trophic mismatch is therefore expected to last for evolutionarily short periods, perhaps only a few seasons, adding to the difficulty of attributing it to climate change, which requires long-term data. So far, the prediction that diverging phenologies linked to climate change will cause mismatch is most clearly met in antagonistic interactions at high latitudes in the Artic. There is limited evidence of phenological mismatch in mutualistic interactions, possibly because of strong selection on mutualists to have co-adapted phenological strategies. The study of individual plasticity, population variation, and the genetic bases for phenological strategies is in its infancy. Recent work on woody plants revealed the large imprint of historic climate change on temperature, chilling, and day-length thresholds used by different species to synchronize their phenophases, which in the Northern Hemisphere has led to biogeographic phenological regions in which long-lived plants have adapted to particular interannual and intermillennial amplitudes of climate change.